Other Worlds, Other Bodies

Emily Pierini is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Marie Skłodowska-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).

“This book makes some highly original and extraordinarily important contributions to anthropology and religious studies that will appeal to a wide readership across these disciplines, from students and specialists of healing and spiritualism to those with an interest in scholarly theories and methods of illuminating the unknown.” • Katherine Swancutt, King's College London“This volume is an illustration of the productive and exciting developments in the field of the anthropology of religion, in particular to what concerns health and healing practices, covering novel approaches and territories that experimentally transcend the classic formulations and interpretations on "spirit possession".” • Ruy Llera Blanes, University of Gothenburg

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Embodied Epistemologies of HealingEmily Pierini, Alberto Groisman and Diana Espírito SantoPart I: Paradoxes and DilemmasChapter 1. Playing with Other Worlds: renegotiating bodily experience and hierarchy in Afro-Brazilian CandombléGiovanna CapponiChapter 2. Embodied Knowledge and the Phenomenological Posture to Frame the Anthropology of “Extraordinary” ExperiencesGéraldine MossièreChapter 3. Living with Spirits: Spirituality and Health in São Paulo, BrazilBettina E. SchmidtPart II: Transitions and TransformationsChapter 4. The Ghosts that Haunt Me: Feeling with Affective Technologies and Doing Ethnography about Spirit Possession in Contemporary JapanAndrea De AntoniChapter 5. “Try Feeding the Ghost More”: An Illness Experience and Understanding the Unseen in a Tamang Village in NepalPaula BronsonChapter 6. Encountering Other Worlds through “Transreligiosity”: A Comparative Account of Healing, Embodiment and Transformation in the FieldEugenia Roussou and Anastasios PanagiotopoulosChapter 7. Learning to Trance: The Affective Grounding of Becoming Another Body in Another PlaceTamara Dee TurnerPart III: EngagementsChapter 8. Ways of Knowing and Healing: Mediumistic and Ethnographic Epiphanies in the Vale do AmanhecerEmily PieriniChapter 9. Learning to Read the World: Education of Attention and Parapsychic Perception of the EnvironmentGustavo Ruiz ChiesaChapter 10. Sensory Ethnography and Anthropology of Mediumship: Exploring Brazilian Spiritist Practices in (Mental) Well-Being and Health/CareHelmar KurzChapter 11. Channelling an Archangel: An Apprenticeship in Metatronic Life and HealingFiona BowieEpilogue: Healing, Images, and TrustRoger CanalsIndex