Concepts of health, disease, and treatment in a rural village of Senegal

Sarli, Leopoldo; Scotti, Marta; Bulgarelli, Ketty; Masera, Giuliana; Enongene, Emile; Sarli, Annavittoria

doi:10.1007/s12682-012-0118-x

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“…But these English terms only partially capture the meaning of such terms for the Senegalese. Sarli et al (2012) report Senegalese villagers as saying that "the wellbeing of each of us is expressed through our relationship with others, where 'others' are intended to mean members of our family and community, but also ancestors".…”

Section: Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Time-space practices of care after a family death in urban Senegal

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Evans

McCarthy

et al. 2021

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper contributes to studies of care practices and care ethics beyond the Minority world by analysing informal caringscapes after a family death in urban Senegal. Based on the findings of a qualitative study in the cities of Dakar and Kaolack, we explore exchanges of care by the living for the living in the period immediately following the death, and changes in these care practices over the longer term. We focus on mobilities and changing care roles in family lives over time. We demonstrate the central significance of family commitments and concern for the wellbeing of the 'family' in caring exchanges. We suggest that a deeply relational understanding of personhood as bound up with family and community underlies many current caring practices in urban Senegal and challenges current conceptualisations of care interdependencies.

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Section: Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Time-space practices of care after a family death in urban Senegal

Bowlby

Evans

McCarthy

et al. 2021

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Although our discussions with Fatou Kébé (Senegalese researcher in the team) did not identify a specific term in Wolof 7 that directly conveyed the notion of 'ubuntu', the Wolof/ Senegalese notions of Dimbulanté (solidarity) and Teranga (hospitality) were central to family and community life within poor urban neighbourhoods. Similarly, Sarli, Scotti, Bulgarelli and Masera (2012) found that understandings of 'health' in a Senegalese village reflected values of ubuntu, with an emphasis on social harmony and equilibrium, rooted in family relationships over generations: the wellbeing of each of us is expressed through our relationship with others, where 'others' are intended to mean members of our family and community, but also ancestors. (2012:74) In discussing 'family' in Senegal, as a linguistic term and as lived experience, we are partly reliant on accounts written in European languages and thus reformatted in European categories, whether English or French, which take the term 'family' as apparently unproblematic, alongside the terms 'kinship' or 'clan'.…”

Section: 'Family' In Senegal Past and Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%