At Ansha's life in the spirit mosque of a healer in Mozambique /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Trentini, Daria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Series:Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Subjects:
Traditional medicine > Mozambique.
Healers > Mozambique.
Guérisseurs > Mozambique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Traditional medicine.
Manners and customs.
Healers.
Mozambique > Social life and customs.
Mozambique.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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