Description
| Product ID: | 9781800738461 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Other Worlds, Other Bodies |
| Subtitle: | Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing |
| Authors: | Author: Alberto Groisman, Emily Pierini, Diana Espirito Santo |
| Page Count: | 293 |
| Subjects: | Social groups: religious groups and communities, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social and cultural anthropology, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Complementary medicine |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-02-10 |