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Tuareg: Tuareg discourse on class and ethnicity
Encyclopedia of medical anthropology : health and illness in the world’s cultures • New York • Published In 2004 • Pages: 1001-1009
By: Rasmussen, Susan J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article summerizes notions of health and illness among the Ewey Tuareg of Niger.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Theory of disease
- Morbidity
- Medical care
- Medical personnel
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Pharmaceuticals
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tuareg
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem: 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1974-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Niger
- NotesAdditional notes
- Susan J. Rasmussen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 1009)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2003050644
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tuaregs