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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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 3, Pages: 909-930 |
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