dc.contributor.author | Israel, Paolo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-30T10:29:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-30T10:29:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Paolo Israel. 2022. Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique, Journal of Southern African Studies, 48:6, 1134-1135, DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2022.2175540 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2022.2175540 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/8711 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: 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 anchoring | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Journal of Southern African Studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Ansha | en_US |
dc.subject | Mozambique | en_US |
dc.subject | Border crossing | en_US |
dc.subject | Spirit mosque | en_US |
dc.subject | Healer | en_US |
dc.title | Of borders and crossings: The lives of a healer in northern Mozambique | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |