Healing in Community: Medicine, Contested Terrains, and Cultural Encounters Among the Tuareg

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Documents Tuareg responses to medicine and healing in northern Niger's current predicament of ecological disaster, economic crisis, and political tensions. 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.

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[s]ophisticated and insightful....succeeds in demonstrating the author's understanding of the various aspects of healing and medicine among the Tuareg, as well as their position in national politics and world history.-Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute
Rasmussen has emerged as the expert on Tuareg studies, dealing specifically with the people around the Air mountain region in Niger. Graduate students and professionals.-Choice
Rasmussen has written a valuable account of Tuareg healing. It describes Tuareg ideas and practices at the same time as it provides an interesting commentary on such current anthropological topics as reflexivity, globalization, the body, and personhood.-Journal of Anthropological Research
"sophisticated and insightful....succeeds in demonstrating the author's understanding of the various aspects of healing and medicine among the Tuareg, as well as their position in national politics and world history."-Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute
"[s]ophisticated and insightful....succeeds in demonstrating the author's understanding of the various aspects of healing and medicine among the Tuareg, as well as their position in national politics and world history."-Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute
"Rasmussen has emerged as the expert on Tuareg studies, dealing specifically with the people around the Air mountain region in Niger. Graduate students and professionals."-Choice
"Rasmussen has written a valuable account of Tuareg healing. It describes Tuareg ideas and practices at the same time as it provides an interesting commentary on such current anthropological topics as reflexivity, globalization, the body, and personhood."-Journal of Anthropological Research

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Susan Rasmussen is Professor of Anthropology, University of Houston.