Tuareg women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude', from which they are released by an evening ritual. Susan Rasmussen analyses symbolism and aesthetic values, provides case studies, and reviews what local people think about the meaning of possession.
Tuareg women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude', from which they are released by an evening ritual. Susan Rasmussen an...
Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude'. The evening curing rituals of the possessed, featuring drumming and song, take place before an audience of young men and women, who joke and flirt as the ritual unfolds. In her analysis of this tolerated but unofficial cult, Susan Rasmussen analyses symbolism and aesthetic values, provides case studies of possessed women, and reviews what local people think about the meaning of possession.
Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude'. The evening cur...
The Tuareg in Africa understand aging in a way that is distinctly nonlinear -- a dimension of life they measure outside a chronological time frame. For the Tuareg, the life course of an individual is more important to the notion of age than the literal age, and rituals related to marriage, childbirth, and death mark the process of aging.
Laying a foundation for deeper understanding of topics related to gender, social stratum, and kinship, Rasmussen sheds light on the concept of aging as she shows the need to deconstruct standard perceptions of age for studying other cultures.
The Tuareg in Africa understand aging in a way that is distinctly nonlinear -- a dimension of life they measure outside a chronological time frame. Fo...
Examines the female-dominated practice of herbalism in the seminomadic Muslim communities of Tuareg. This book takes the reader into this world of medicine women through interviews, guided conversations, life histories, illustrative case studies, and the words of the healers and their patients.
Examines the female-dominated practice of herbalism in the seminomadic Muslim communities of Tuareg. This book takes the reader into this world of med...
Exploring the multiple communities of healing among the Tuareg people of Niger, this work examines the beliefs and practices that surround healing and the quest for medicine. In studying ideals of healing that face challenges from wider political and economic forces, the author enables us to understand these culturally and historically constructed processes. This leads us to comprehend how many Tuareg construct and deconstruct local notions of medicine and healers, how patients cope with current problems in health care, and more broadly, how medical knowledge is constructed in anthropology...
Exploring the multiple communities of healing among the Tuareg people of Niger, this work examines the beliefs and practices that surround healing ...
