Other Worlds, Other Bodies

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Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvEmily Pierini,Alberto Groisman,Diana Espírito Santo

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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 addresses the density of ethnographic experience that can potentially decondition personal ontologies and epistemologies, unfolding a process of transformation, analogous to 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-15
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt424 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor293
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781836956907

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Embodied Epistemologies of HealingEmily Pierini, Alberto Groisman and Diana Espírito SantoPart I: Paradoxes and DilemmasChapter 1. Playing with Other Worlds: renegotiating bodily experience and hierarchy in Afro-Brazilian CandombléGiovanna CapponiChapter 2. Embodied Knowledge and the Phenomenological Posture to Frame the Anthropology of “Extraordinary” ExperiencesGéraldine MossièreChapter 3. Living with Spirits: Spirituality and Health in São Paulo, BrazilBettina E. SchmidtPart II: Transitions and TransformationsChapter 4. The Ghosts that Haunt Me: Feeling with Affective Technologies and Doing Ethnography about Spirit Possession in Contemporary JapanAndrea De AntoniChapter 5. “Try Feeding the Ghost More”: An Illness Experience and Understanding the Unseen in a Tamang Village in NepalPaula BronsonChapter 6. Encountering Other Worlds through “Transreligiosity”: A Comparative Account of Healing, Embodiment and Transformation in the FieldEugenia Roussou and Anastasios PanagiotopoulosChapter 7. Learning to Trance: The Affective Grounding of Becoming Another Body in Another PlaceTamara Dee TurnerPart III: EngagementsChapter 8. Ways of Knowing and Healing: Mediumistic and Ethnographic Epiphanies in the Vale do AmanhecerEmily PieriniChapter 9. Learning to Read the World: Education of Attention and Parapsychic Perception of the EnvironmentGustavo Ruiz ChiesaChapter 10. Sensory Ethnography and Anthropology of Mediumship: Exploring Brazilian Spiritist Practices in (Mental) Well-Being and Health/CareHelmar KurzChapter 11. Channelling an Archangel: An Apprenticeship in Metatronic Life and HealingFiona BowieEpilogue: Healing, Images, and TrustRoger CanalsIndex

“This book makes some highly original and extraordinarily important contributions to anthropology and religious studies that will appeal to a wide readership across these disciplines, from students and specialists of healing and spiritualism to those with an interest in scholarly theories and methods of illuminating the unknown.” • Katherine Swancutt, King's College London“This volume is an illustration of the productive and exciting developments in the field of the anthropology of religion, in particular to what concerns health and healing practices, covering novel approaches and territories that experimentally transcend the classic formulations and interpretations on "spirit possession".” • Ruy Llera Blanes, University of Gothenburg