This dissertation is an ethnography of cultural pluralism in a Fulbe community in Cameroon's Extreme North province. Fulbeness, medicine, gender, and Islam are the principle foci through which Fulbe culture is viewed. Emphasis is placed on the complex, shifting, and often contradictory discourse of Fulbe people themselves. Medical pluralism is but one aspect of cultural pluralism, as the tensions between men and women, Islam and paganism, and Fulbe and non-Fulbe interract in complex ways. The medical section centers on the discourse of people who are not experts in medicine, but who nonetheless employ a wide variety of therapeutic disciplines in preventing and managing affliction. The thesis explores the relation between people and the various orders of knowledge and power which are embedded in the various cultural discourses of the Fulbe terrain / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_24607 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Contributors | Regis, Helen A (Author), Masquelier, Adeline (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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