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

In "At Ansha's," the reader is taken inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique, where Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, heals her patients' ailments, shares her story of affliction and healing, and engages with the world outside her mosque. We follow Ansha's experiences as a revolutionary and migrant, her religious trajectories, family, healers, spirits, and declining health. She invites us to make meaning with her as we sit in her mosque and engage with her family, spirits, friends, patients, and world.

Format: Hardback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 16 July 2021
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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 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.

Weight: 485g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781978806702