Title

Intimate Hierarchies and Qur'anic Saliva (Tëfli): Textuality in a Senegalese Ethnomedical Encounter

Authors

Sabina PerrinoFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

orcid.org/0000-0002-9984-9498

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2002

Keywords

Ethnomedicine, textuality, multimodal analysis, interaction, Senegal

Abstract

This article examines the multimodal textuality of a videotaped ethnomedical

encounter between a Senegalese healer and his patient and considers these

findings in light of metadiscourses on healing that were collected in interviews.

The article demonstrates how a cultural figure of the healing process

is precipitated out of patterns of co-occurrence (or "textures") of linguistic,

paralinguistic, and nonlinguistic semiotic devices and suggests that this

approach is well equipped to illuminate ethnomedical practice in Senegal and

elsewhere.

Recommended Citation

Perrino, Sabina, "Intimate Hierarchies and Qur'anic Saliva (Tëfli): Textuality in a Senegalese Ethnomedical Encounter" (2002). Anthropology Faculty Scholarship. 39.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/anthropology_fac/39