Other Worlds, Other Bodies

Other Worlds, Other Bodies
Author: Emily Pierini
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2023
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1800738463


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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.