Other worlds, other bodies : embodied epistemologies and ethnographies of healing /: embodied epistemologies and ethnographies of healing. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Emily Pierini, Alberto Groisman, Diana Espírito Santo.
• Editors: Pierini, Emily; Groisman, Alberto, 1958-; Espirito Santo, Diana
• Contents: List of Illustrations; 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (310 pages)
• Subjects: 234.131; Spiritual healing; Experience (Religion); Knowledge, Theory of (Religion); Healing -- Religious aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800738478
• Related ISBNs: 9781800738461
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