Amina: Shaking Boundaries of a Woman Inhabited by the Spirits (Senegal).
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry March 1, 2025 Angelo Miramonti
In this article, I present the individual ethnography of Amina, a Senegalese woman possessed by the spirits of her lineage. Amina's story shows the lacerations of a person who simultaneously inhabits two worlds: the traditional Lebou culture and the Western one. When her spirits manifest themselves, she is forced to choose between two different interpretations of her suffering: the traditional...