At Ansha's: Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique - Couverture souple

Trentini, Daria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1978806698 ISBN 13 : 9781978806696

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1978806698
• ISBN 13: 9781978806696
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
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• Personne responsable: non disponible