Re-Thinking a Matrilineal Myth of Healing: Tuareg Medicine Women, Islam, and the Market in Niger

This article explores the changing metaphoric logic and contextual uses of a mythical-historical popular religious account of matrilineal origins of herbal medicine women among Tuareg in northern Niger. Medicine women both reproduce and modify this origin myth’s motif in their Tamajaq-speaking, Musl...

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Main Author: Rasmussen, Susan J. 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2021
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 3, Pages: 909-930
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