Other worlds, other bodies

"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"-- Introduction : embodied epistemologies of healing / Emily Pierini, Alberto Groisman, and Diana Espírito Santo -- Playing with other worlds : renegotiating bodily experience and hierarchy in Afro-Brazilian candomblé / Giovanna Capponi -- Embodied knowledge and the phenomenological posture to frame the anthropology of "extraordinary" experiences / Géraldine Mossière -- Living with spirits : spirituality and health in São Paulo, Brazil / Bettina E. Schmidt -- The ghosts that haunt me : feeling with affective technologies and doing ethnography about spirit possession in contemporary Japan / Andrea De Antoni -- "Try feeding the ghost more" : illness experience and understanding the unseen in a Tamang village, Nepal / Paula Bronson -- Encountering other worlds through "transreligiosity" : a comparative account of healing, embodiment, and transformation in the field / Eugenia Roussou and Anastasios Panagiotopoulos -- Learning to trance : the affective grounding of becoming another body in another place / Tamara Dee Turner -- Ways of knowing and healing : mediumistic and ethnographic epiphanies in the Vale do Amanhecer / Emily Pierini -- Learning to read the world : education of attention and parapsychic perception of the environment / Gustavo Ruiz Chiesa -- Sensory ethnography and anthropology of mediumship : exploring Brazilian spiritist practices in (mental) well-being and health/care / Helmar Kurz -- Channeling an archangel : an apprenticeship in metatronic life and healing / Fiona Bowie -- Epilogue : healing, images, and trust / Roger Canals.