Other Worlds, Other Bodies - Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing

Informationen zum Autor Emily Pierini is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Marie Sklodowska-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). Alberto Groisman is a Volunteer Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He co-coordinates with Emily Pierini for “HEAL - Network for the Ethnography of Healing”. Diana Espírito Santo is Associate Professor at the Escuela de Antropología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is the author of three monographs and has co-edited several volumes, including T he Dynamic Cosmos: Movement, Paradox and Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession (Bloomsbury, 2022). Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Groisman Pierini
• Assisted by: Alberto Groisman (Editor), Emily Pierini (Editor), Diana Espírito Santo (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2023
• EAN: 9781800738461
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-846-1
• No. of pages: 293
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); RELIGION / Spirituality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, complementary medicine, Social and cultural anthropology, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies