At Ansha's : : Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique / / Daria Trentini.

At Ansha's takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, heals the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the world outside her mosqu...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.) :; 7 b-w images
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
ILLUSTRATIONS --
FOREWORD --
ABBREVIATIONS --
ANSHA’S FAMILY --
NOTE ON LANGUAGES --
PROLOGUE: To the Spirit Mosque --
INTRODUCTION --
PART I: ANSHA AND THE SPIRITS --
1. RURAL AND URBAN --
2. HEALTH AND HEALING --
3. WIVES AND HUSBANDS --
4. DEMONS AND SPIRITS --
5. INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS --
6. MOUNTAINS --
7. COAST --
8. RIVERS AND BRIDGES --
PART II: OUTSIDE THE MOSQUE --
9. MAKHUWA AND MAKA --
10. BOOKS AND ROOTS --
11. MUSLIMS OF THE SPIRITS AND MUSLIMS OF THE MOSQUE --
12. HEALERS AND THE GOVERNO --
13. HEALERS AND NURSES --
14. KNOWING AND NOT-KNOWING --
PART III: PATIENTS --
15. GOOD AND EVIL --
16. CLOSED AND OPENED --
17. THE DEAD AND THE LIVING --
18. JUNIORS AND SENIORS --
19. TRADITION AND MODERNITY --
20. SPIRITS AND WOMEN --
PART IV: RETURNS --
21. LIFE AND DEATH --
EPILOGUE --
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
GLOSSARY --
NOTES --
REFERENCES --
INDEX
Summary:At Ansha's takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, heals the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the world outside her mosque. We come to know Ansha’s experiences as revolutionary and migrant, her religious trajectories, family, the healers who cured her, the spirits who possessed her, and her declining health. We follow Ansha’s shifts in her life and work in the mosque as these intersect with the visible and invisible borders of Mozambique and of its fraught history. Confronting events in her life and in the mosque between 2009 and 2016, Ansha invites us to make meaning with her, as we sit in her mosque, and engage with her family, spirits, friends, patients, and world.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781978806733
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754186
9783110753967
9783110739138
DOI:10.36019/9781978806733?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Daria Trentini.