2. Embodied Knowledge and the Phenomenological Posture to Frame the Anthropology of “Extraordinary” Experiences

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction. Embodied Epistemologies of Healing 1
6. Part I. Paradoxes and Dilemmas
7. 1. Playing with Other Worlds: Renegotiating Bodily Experience and Hierarchy in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé 33
8. 2. Embodied Knowledge and the Phenomenological Posture to Frame the Anthropology of “Extraordinary” Experiences 52
9. 3. Living with Spirits: Spirituality and Health in São Paulo, Brazil 73
10. Part II. Transitions and Transformations
11. 4. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Feeling with Affective Technologies and Doing Ethnography about Spirit Possession in Contemporary Japan 95
12. 5. “Try Feeding the Ghost More”: Illness Experience and Understanding the Unseen in a Tamang Village, Nepal 115
13. 6. Encountering Other Worlds through “Transreligiosity”: A Comparative Account of Healing, Embodiment, and Transformation in the Field 133
14. 7. Learning to Trance: The Affective Grounding of Becoming Another Body in Another Place 153
15. Part III. Engagements
16. 8. Ways of Knowing and Healing: Mediumistic and Ethnographic Epiphanies in the Vale do Amanhecer 175
17. 9. Learning to Read the World: Education of Attention and Parapsychic Perception of the Environment 193
18. 10. Sensory Ethnography and Anthropology of Mediumship: Exploring Brazilian Spiritist Practices in (Mental) Well-Being and Health/Care 211
19. 11. Channeling an Archangel: An Apprenticeship in Metatronic Life and Healing^® 230
20. Epilogue. Healing, Images, and Trust 250
21. Index 269