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Nomadic Women's Health Practice

Nomadic Women's Health Practice


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A study of health concepts and illness perceptions among Kel Alhafra Tuareg in Mali. The recent past has brought political isolation and marginalization to the Kel Alhafra Tuareg in Mali. Religious values are being reassessed in order to stabilize their collective Islamic identity. At the same time, however, an opposite process of rationalization is taking place where attitudes towards the body are changing, where a general mechanization in everyday life and a thirst for Western medical knowledge are increasing, and an ostensive conflict between religious and rational influences is occurring. In the context of these dynamics, the present study shows the changes of health, help seeking behavior, and medical care of a superficially radicalized Islamic community with one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. With specific regard to women and children, intimate conversations between women grant rare insight to diseases and experiences that effect the female life cycle. The interdisciplinary work of the scholar in Islamic studies applies anthropological, linguistic and epidemiological approaches leading to a comprehensive understanding of health and disease in a nomadic group who lives on the edge of governmental and international healthcare systems. Eine Studie zu Gesundheitsverstandnis und Krankheitsvorstellungen der Kel Alhafra Tuareg in Mali. Politische Veranderungen, Flucht und Vertreibung haben die Kel Alhafra Tuareg in Mali wahrend der vergangenen Jahre zunehmend marginalisiert. Angesichts ihrer ungewissen Situation stellen religiose Werte ein neu gewichtetes, Stabilitat stiftendes Gerust dar. Gleichzeitig findet ein entgegengesetzter Prozess der Rationalisierung statt, wobei sich die Haltung dem Korper gegenuber verandert, eine zunehmende Mechanisierung im alltaglichen Leben und ein Wissensdrang nach westlicher Medizin festzustellen ist. Die Studie zeigt den Einfluss dieser Dynamik auf Gesundheit, hilfesuchendes Verhalten und medizinische Versorgung in einer scheinbar radikalisierten islamischen Gesellschaft mit einer der hochsten Kindersterblichkeitsraten der Welt. Spezifisches Augenmerk gilt den nomadischen Frauen und Kindern, wobei aus vertraulichen Gesprachen von Frau zu Frau erstaunliche Einblicke in den Bereich jener Krankheiten und Erlebnisse gewonnen werden, die den weiblichen Lebenszyklus betreffen. Die interdisziplinare Arbeit der Islamwissenschaftlerin verbindet anthropologische, linguistische und epidemiologische Ansatze und gelangt so zu einem umfassenden Verstandnis von Gesundheit und Krankheit in einer Nomadengruppe, die am Rande und quer zur staatlichen aber auch internationalen Gesundheitsversorgung lebt.
About the Author: Anna Katharina Munch, Ph.D., spent three years among nomadic families in Mali investigating their concepts of health and their perceptions of illness. Her language skill and empathy helped win the confidence of the Tuareg women. They granted her insight into their everyday life and their methods for dealing with disease and malnutrition. For her work she received the Young Tropical Scientist Award. Anna Munch is working as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, NJ. Anna Katharina Munch, Dr. phil., lebte drei Jahre mit Nomaden in Mali, um deren Krankheitsvorstellungen und Gesundheitsverstandnis zu erforschen. Mit Sprachkenntnis und Einfuhlungsvermogen gewann sie das Vertrauen der Tuareg-Frauen, die ihr Einblick in den Lebensalltag und den Umgang mit Krankheit und Mangel gewahrten. Fur ihre Arbeit erhielt sie den Young Tropical Scientist Award. Anna Munch ist heute als Postdoctoral Research Associate an der Princeton University, N.J. tatig.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783796527449
  • Publisher: Schwabe
  • Publisher Imprint: Schwabe
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3796527442
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Sub Title: Islamic Belief and Medical Care Among Kel Alhafra Tuareg in Mali


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