At Ansha's

At Ansha's

Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique

Trentini, Daria

Rutgers University Press

07/2021

246

Mole

Inglês

9781978806696

15 a 20 dias

358

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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
At Ansha's; spirit mosque; healer; Mozambique; religious; family; patients; ethnic studies; health; medicine; anthropology; Africa; Nampula; Makonde; culture; practices; medical anthropology; traditional; modern medicine