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.