University Press of America
Pages: 176
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7618-6148-5 • Hardback • September 2013 • $86.00 • (£66.00)
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Susan Rasmussen is professor of anthropology in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. Her interests include anthropology of religion, medico-ritual healing and healing specialists, gender, and aging and the life course. She is also interested in rural and urban artisans, verbal art performance, ethnographic analysis, culture theory, and African humanities. She has published four books and many articles based on data from her long-term field research in Tuareg communities of northern Niger and Mali, and more briefly among Tuareg and other Berber (Amazigh) expatriates, immigrants, and travelers in France and the United States.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Tezma Power and Tuareg Inaden Smith/Artisans
Chapter 2 Inaden Origins, Histories, and Professional Practices
Chapter 3 Powers, Tensions, and Mediations
Chapter 4 Q’alb Power and Amhara Buda/Tayb Smith/Artisans
Chapter 5 Echar Power and Bidan M’Allemin Smith/Artisans
Chapter 6 Beshengu Power and Kapsiki Rerhe Smith/Artisans
Chapter 7 Nyama Power and Mande Nyamakala Smith/Artisans
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Author Biography
[This] book culminates with rich and stimulating material, and Allen is to be congratulated for the innovative ways in which she approaches human rights.
— Journal of Anthropological Research