Other Worlds, Other Bodies
Author | : Emily Pierini |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2023 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781800738461 |
ISBN-13 | : 1800738463 |
Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.