Parallel and divergent landscapes: Cultural encounters in the ethnographic space of tuareg medicine

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 242-270

  Rasmussen, Susan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

(Cultural) medical anthropology; Africa; Anthropology of religion; Ethnographic analysis and writing issues; Indigenous critique

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NIGER; PATIENT ATTITUDE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; NIGER; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0034201740     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2000.14.2.242     Document Type: Article

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