Of borders and crossings: The lives of a healer in northern Mozambique

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dc.contributor.authorIsrael, Paolo
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-30T10:29:13Z
dc.date.available2023-03-30T10:29:13Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractBackground: Daria Trentini�s book is a narrative exploration of the life and practice of a healer in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula. Ansha, the titular protagonist, was a Makonde migrant from the province of Cabo Delgado who moved to Nampula, converted to Islam and set up a �spirit mosque� in which the Koran and herbal knowledge were used to cure afflictions. Spirit possession (majini) was central both to illness and healing. A being of many worlds, Ansha crossed, navigated and negotiated a number of borders: between ethnicities, regions and religions; between sickness and health, the city and the countryside, the spirit and the human domain. Indeed, the figure of the border � especially the notions of �border crossing� and �border events� � provide the book with its central conceptual anchoringen_US
dc.identifier.citationPaolo Israel. 2022. Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique, Journal of Southern African Studies, 48:6, 1134-1135, DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2022.2175540en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2022.2175540
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/8711
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Southern African Studiesen_US
dc.subjectAnshaen_US
dc.subjectMozambiqueen_US
dc.subjectBorder crossingen_US
dc.subjectSpirit mosqueen_US
dc.subjectHealeren_US
dc.titleOf borders and crossings: The lives of a healer in northern Mozambiqueen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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