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.

DARIA TRENTINI is an assistant professor of anthropology at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

— Susan Rasmussen, author of Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective

— Patricia Barker Lerch, Nova Religio

— Harry G. West, author of Ethnographic Sorcery