Dancing With Skeletons Summary

In the book “Dancing with Skeletons” by physical anthropologist Katherine A. Dettwyler, Dettwyler conducts a first hand study also known as ethnography in Mali which is located in West Africa. Dettwyler’s book consists of written information of her ethnography in places in Mali such as Macina, Bamako, and Timbuktu. Dettwyler writes in her book about the CARE health projects in the villages located around Macina in northern Mali. In this essay I will be discussing the goals of the CARE health projects and the methods used by them. I will also be discussing the problems that people in the villages faced, as well as how the CARE health projects helped them deal with these problems.
First I will be talking about the goals of the CARE health projects,
Dettwyler writes about the CARE health projects in villages around Macina in northern Mali. In my essay I have discussed the goals of the CARE health projects which were to increase the sanitation standards in the villages as well as help which the prevention of illness. I discussed the problems that the village people faced which include unsanitary drink water, lack of immunizations, unsanitary living (around villages and in home), and birth hygiene. I also talked about the methods that the CARE health project used which were educating villagers, building things for the villages, and providing sanitary equipment to the villagers. Lastly I discussed how the CARE health project methods were used when trying to help the villagers deal with their problems. Some examples of things they did to help the villagers with their problems are educating them on sanitation in the villages, homemade oral rehydration solutions, building wells for them, and providing new material such as immunizations and birthing equipment. Overall the CARE health projects had a positive impact on the villages around northern Macina in Mali by providing solutions to the problems that the villagers