Those Who TouchA twenty five year veteran of field research in Niger and Mali, anthropologist Susan J. Rasmussen examines the female dominated practice of herbalism in the seminomadic Muslim communities of Tuareg. Medicine women, known as tinesmegelen, diagnose by touch and treat their patientsmostly women and childrenwith leaves, bark, and roots from trees associated with ancestral spirits. In addition to healing, they relate oral traditions, offer marital