| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Medical anthropology |
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Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
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| 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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
"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 during 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
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 |
| Subject |
Traditional medicine -- Mozambique
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Healers -- Mozambique
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Traditional medicine
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Manners and customs
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Healers
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| SUBJECT |
Mozambique -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Mozambique
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781978806719 |
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197880671X |
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9781978806733 |
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1978806736 |
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