At Ansha's

Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique

Daria Trentini (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0670-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

DARIA TRENTINI is an assistant professor of anthropology at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Lenore Manderson

List of Abbreviations

Ansha’s Family

Note on Languages

Prologue

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

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	7 b-w images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-0670-1 / 1978806701
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0670-2 / 9781978806702
Zustand	Neuware