Other Worlds, Other Bodies

Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing

Emily Pierini, Alberto Groisman, Diana Espírito Santo (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

293 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-846-1 (ISBN)

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When approaching the multiplicity of the spiritual experiences of healing, ethnographers are often presented with ideas of the existence of “other” worlds that may intersect with the so-called “material” or “physical” worlds. This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.

Emily Pierini is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of several journal articles and chapters, and the book Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer (Berghahn, 2020).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Embodied Epistemologies of Healing

Emily Pierini, Alberto Groisman and Diana Espírito Santo

Part I: Paradoxes and Dilemmas

Chapter 1. Playing with Other Worlds: renegotiating bodily experience and hierarchy in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé

Giovanna Capponi

Chapter 2. Embodied Knowledge and the Phenomenological Posture to Frame the Anthropology of “Extraordinary” Experiences

Géraldine Mossière

Chapter 3. Living with Spirits: Spirituality and Health in São Paulo, Brazil

Bettina E. Schmidt

Part II: Transitions and Transformations

Chapter 4. The Ghosts that Haunt Me: Feeling with Affective Technologies and Doing Ethnography about Spirit Possession in Contemporary Japan

Andrea De Antoni

Chapter 5. “Try Feeding the Ghost More”: An Illness Experience and Understanding the Unseen in a Tamang Village in Nepal

Paula Bronson

Chapter 6. Encountering Other Worlds through “Transreligiosity”: A Comparative Account of Healing, Embodiment and Transformation in the Field

Eugenia Roussou and Anastasios Panagiotopoulos

Chapter 7. Learning to Trance: The Affective Grounding of Becoming Another Body in Another Place

Tamara Dee Turner

Part III: Engagements

Chapter 8. Ways of Knowing and Healing: Mediumistic and Ethnographic Epiphanies in the Vale do Amanhecer

Emily Pierini

Chapter 9. Learning to Read the World: Education of Attention and Parapsychic Perception of the Environment

Gustavo Ruiz Chiesa

Chapter 10. Sensory Ethnography and Anthropology of Mediumship: Exploring Brazilian Spiritist Practices in (Mental) Well-Being and Health/Care

Helmar Kurz

Chapter 11. Channelling an Archangel: An Apprenticeship in Metatronic Life and Healing

Fiona Bowie

Epilogue: Healing, Images, and Trust

Roger Canals

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-80073-846-3 / 1800738463
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-846-1 / 9781800738461
Zustand	Neuware