Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing - Paperback
Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing - Paperback
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by Emily Pierini (Editor), Alberto Groisman (Editor), Diana Espírito Santo (Editor)
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 addresses the density of ethnographic experience that can potentially decondition personal ontologies and epistemologies, unfolding a process of transformation, analogous to 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.
Author Biography
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).
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