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SUSAN J. RASMUSSEN. Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 234. $26.00

The Tuareg are a loose alliance of clans and tribes inhabiting a vast region in the Central Sahara that encompasses Southern Algeria, southwestern Libya, most of Niger, eastern Mali, northern Burkina Faso and Nigeria. Still speaking the Berber of their ancient ancestors, the Tuareg are well-known for their knowledge of the desert and control of the trans-Saharan caravan routes. In recent decades they have been marginalized by postcolonial nation states, but they, in response, have mounted resistance movements to regain their autonomy and cross-border access to water and grazing lands. That thi…