Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing

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.