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

by Daria Trentini

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978806698
• ISBN13: 9781978806696
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher