Other Worlds, Other Bodies : : Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing / / ed. by Emily Pierini, Alberto Groisman, Diana Espírito Santo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Bowie, Fiona,; Bronson, Paula,; Canals, Roger,; Capponi, Giovanna,; Chiesa, Gustavo R.,; De Antoni, Andrea,; Espírito Santo, Diana,; Groisman, Alberto,; Kurz, Helmar,; Mossière, Géraldine,; Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios,; Pierini, Emily,; Roussou, Eugenia,; Schmidt, Bettina E.,; Turner, Tamara Dee,
• HerausgeberIn: Groisman, Alberto,; Pierini, Emily,; Santo, Diana Espírito,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Embodied Epistemologies of Healing -- Part I. Paradoxes and Dilemmas -- 1. Playing with Other Worlds: Renegotiating Bodily Experience and Hierarchy in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé -- 2. Embodied Knowledge and the Phenomenological Posture to Frame the Anthropology of “Extraordinary” Experiences -- 3. Living with Spirits: Spirituality and Health in São Paulo, Brazil -- Part II. Transitions and Transformations -- 4. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Feeling with Affective Technologies and Doing Ethnography about Spirit Possession in Contemporary Japan -- 5. “Try Feeding the Ghost More”: Illness Experience and Understanding the Unseen in a Tamang Village, Nepal -- 6. Encountering Other Worlds through “Transreligiosity”: A Comparative Account of Healing, Embodiment, and Transformation in the Field -- 7. Learning to Trance: The Affective Grounding of Becoming Another Body in Another Place -- Part III. Engagements -- 8. Ways of Knowing and Healing: Mediumistic and Ethnographic Epiphanies in the Vale do Amanhecer -- 9. Learning to Read the World: Education of Attention and Parapsychic Perception of the Environment -- 10. Sensory Ethnography and Anthropology of Mediumship: Exploring Brazilian Spiritist Practices in (Mental) Well-Being and Health/Care -- 11. Channeling an Archangel: An Apprenticeship in Metatronic Life and Healing® -- Epilogue. Healing, Images, and Trust -- Index