At Ansha's life in the spirit mosque of a healer in Mozambique /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2021]
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Colección: | Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 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
- About the Author
- Series Titles