Parallel and Divergent Landscapes
Cultural Encounters in the Ethnographic Space of Tuareg Medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3042880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan J Rasmussen (University of Houston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 242-270 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/maq.2000.14.2.242 |
| PMID | 10879372 |
| OpenAlex | W2095882384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
This essay explores the dialogue between the local quest for healing and the anthropological quest for healing knowledge, and local assessments of knowledge-power relationships in these processes. The context is medical discourse among the Tuareg of Niger Republic, West Africa, and my research experiences among these people. I examine local medical specialists and their traditional and changing practice in terms of how they perceive and respond to wider knowledge and power systems that impinge on local health care. Paramount in these systems are central state policies and medical anthropological research on healing, as these intersect in a postcolonial and post-separatist/rebellion setting. The essay analyzes parallels between the exchange of medicine and the exchange of knowledge and reflects upon how anthropological knowledge of African healing systems is constructed in an environment highly charged with power and danger-of political violence and economic crisis. The broader issue addressed here is how to give greater empowerment to local residents' voices in their "indigenous critique" of the medical anthropological project, [(cultural) medical anthropology, ethnographic analysis and writing issues, Africa, indigenous critique, anthropology of religion
Context (archaeology · Empowerment · Ethnography · Health care · Indigenous · Parallels · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Law · Ecology
Conversations with Ogotemmeli
The Taste of Ethnographic Things
The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire
Never in anger
Personhood and agency
A Space on the Side of the Road
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
In Sorcery's Shadow
Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
Female sexuality, social reproduction, and the politics of medical intervention in Niger
Healing and cultural transformation
Mama Lola
African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine
Parallel and Divergent Landscapes
Only Women Know Trees
Identité touarègue
Parallel Worlds
Modes of Persuasion
Ritual Specialists, Ambiguity and Power in Tuareg Society
Ecstasy and Healing in Nepal; an Ethnopsychiatric Study of Tamang Shamanism
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging
On the creation and dissolution of ethnomedical systems in the medical ethnography of Africa
The Mindful Body
Within the Tent and at the Crossroads
Ritual Powers and Social Tensions as Moral Discourse among the Tuareg
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging
Social Distance and the Veil1
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2014 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |