id 5321 Url https://iwac.frederickmadore.com/s/afrique_ouest/item/5321 Modèle de ressource Journal article Classe de ressource bibo:AcademicArticle Id de collection 2222 Titre "These Are Dirty Times": Transformations of Gendered Spaces and Islamic Ritual Protection in Tuareg Herbalists' and Marabouts' "Albaraka" Blessing Powers Sujet Mali Marabout gender rite Tuareg Editeur https://iwac.frederickmadore.com/s/afrique_ouest/item/25090 Journal of Ritual Studies Date 2004 Type https://iwac.frederickmadore.com/s/afrique_ouest/item/8475 Article de revue Identifiant https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117312330 Q117312330 Langue https://iwac.frederickmadore.com/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322 Anglais Résumé This essay examines the dangers and possibilities, in times of transformation, for the practice of Islamic blessing powers called albaraka by women and men ritual specialists and other leaders among the Tuareg of Niger and Mali, West Africa. Sociopolitical dynamics challenge some arrangements that have underwritten traditional albaraka power. In this scenario, prominent men and women who protect and mediate the Tuareg world from threatening outsiders draw on this force in diverse ways. Couverture spatiale https://iwac.frederickmadore.com/s/afrique_ouest/item/540 Niger Liste des auteurs https://iwac.frederickmadore.com/s/afrique_ouest/item/1735 Susan J. Rasmussen Numéro 2 Dernière page 60 Première page 43 Volume 18 --