Daria Trentini

At Ansha's

Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique

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Produktbeschreibung

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, cures the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the borders of her world.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781978806696
• ISBN-10: 1978806698
• Artikelnr.: 60366915

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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