ISBN:
9781800738461
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 283 Seiten
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Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Other worlds, other bodies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Other worlds, other bodies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Other worlds, other bodies
DDC:
615.8/52
Keywords:
Spiritual healing and spiritualism
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Experience (Religion)
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Healers
;
Mediums
;
Channeling (Spiritualism)
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Theological anthropology
;
Knowledge, Theory of
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : embodied epistemologies of healing / Emily Pierini, Alberto Groisman, and Diana Espírito Santo -- Playing with other worlds : renegotiating bodily experience and hierarchy in Afro-Brazilian candomblé / Giovanna Capponi -- Embodied knowledge and the phenomenological posture to frame the anthropology of "extraordinary" experiences / Géraldine Mossière -- Living with spirits : spirituality and health in São Paulo, Brazil / Bettina E. Schmidt -- The ghosts that haunt me : feeling with affective technologies and doing ethnography about spirit possession in contemporary Japan / Andrea De Antoni -- "Try feeding the ghost more" : illness experience and understanding the unseen in a Tamang village, Nepal / Paula Bronson -- Encountering other worlds through "transreligiosity" : a comparative account of healing, embodiment, and transformation in the field / Eugenia Roussou and Anastasios Panagiotopoulos -- Learning to trance : the affective grounding of becoming another body in another place / Tamara Dee Turner -- Ways of knowing and healing : mediumistic and ethnographic epiphanies in the Vale do Amanhecer / Emily Pierini -- Learning to read the world : education of attention and parapsychic perception of the environment / Gustavo Ruiz Chiesa -- Sensory ethnography and anthropology of mediumship : exploring Brazilian spiritist practices in (mental) well-being and health/care / Helmar Kurz -- Channeling an archangel : an apprenticeship in metatronic life and healing / Fiona Bowie -- Epilogue : healing, images, and trust / Roger Canals.
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Literaturangaben
DOI:
10.3167/9781800738461
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