At Ansha's
Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11423629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amina Alaoui Soulimani (0009-0004-9930-2566, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Kronos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0259-0190 • E-ISSN: 2309-9585 |
| Publisher | Academy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.17159/2309-9585/2024/v50a8 |
| OpenAlex | W4400190825 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0259-01902024000100016 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Daria Trentini, At Ansha's: Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2021), 246 pp., ISBN: 9781978806696 At Ansha's is a world that speaks for itself, a place-based ethnography that travels in and out of binaries of extension - spatial and idiomatic antonyms that converge in the making of history and the human. Trentini locates her main protagonist, Ansha, as a migrant from Mueda, Cabo Delgado in Nampula, and offers a rich descriptive landscape that tells many stories; notably, Ansha's passage from being under the control of majini (spirits) to becoming a healer - a transition from illness to healing. The ethnography, through Ansha's memory, is situated at the conjuncture of Mozambique's socialist era, FRELIMO and RENAMO's confrontation, and the anti-colonial war. It recognises the aftermath of dispossession and state violence as an open wound
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Economic history · Ethnography · Situated · Socialist republic · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |