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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Embodied Epistemologies of Healing
Emily Pierini, Alberto Groisman and Diana Espírito Santo

Part I: Paradoxes and Dilemmas

Chapter 1. Playing with Other Worlds: renegotiating bodily experience and hierarchy in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé
Giovanna Capponi

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

Chapter 3. Living with Spirits: Spirituality and Health in São Paulo, Brazil
Bettina E. Schmidt

Part II: Transitions and Transformations

Chapter 4. The Ghosts that Haunt Me: Feeling with Affective Technologies and Doing Ethnography about Spirit Possession in Contemporary Japan
Andrea De Antoni

Chapter 5. “Try Feeding the Ghost More”: An Illness Experience and Understanding the Unseen in a Tamang Village in Nepal
Paula Bronson

Chapter 6. Encountering Other Worlds through “Transreligiosity”: A Comparative Account of Healing, Embodiment and Transformation in the Field
Eugenia Roussou and Anastasios Panagiotopoulos

Chapter 7. Learning to Trance: The Affective Grounding of Becoming Another Body in Another Place
Tamara Dee Turner

Part III: Engagements

Chapter 8. Ways of Knowing and Healing: Mediumistic and Ethnographic Epiphanies in the Vale do Amanhecer
Emily Pierini

Chapter 9. Learning to Read the World: Education of Attention and Parapsychic Perception of the Environment
Gustavo Ruiz Chiesa

Chapter 10. Sensory Ethnography and Anthropology of Mediumship: Exploring Brazilian Spiritist Practices in (Mental) Well-Being and Health/Care
Helmar Kurz

Chapter 11. Channelling an Archangel: An Apprenticeship in Metatronic Life and Healing
Fiona Bowie

Epilogue: Healing, Images, and Trust
Roger Canals

Index

Other Worlds, Other Bodies

Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing

Edited by Emily Pierini, Alberto Groisman, and Diana Espírito Santo

Epilogue by Roger Canals

293 pages, 4 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-846-1 Hb Published (February 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80073-847-8 eBook