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Body/meaning/healing / by Thomas J. Csordas.
Penn Museum Library BL65.M4 C75 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Csordas, Thomas J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spiritual healing.
- Human body--Religious aspects.
- Human body.
- Indians of North America--Religion.
- Indians of North America.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Houndmills, Basinstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
- Summary:
- Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as "religious healing?" In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity? Drawing on over twenty years of research on topics ranging from Navajo and Catholic Charismatic ritual healing to the cultural and religious implications of virtual reality in biomedical technology, Body/Meaning/Healing sensitively examines these questions about human experience and the meaning of being human. In recognizing the way that the meaningfulness of our existence as bodily beings is sometimes created in the encounter between suffering and the sacred, these penetrating ethnographic studies elaborate an experiential understanding of the therapeutic process, and trace the outlines of a cultural phenomenology grounded in embodiment.
- Contents:
- Part I Charismatic Transformations 9
- 1 The Rhetoric of Transformation in Ritual Healing 11
- 2 Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology 58
- 3 A Handmaid's Tale 88
- 4 The Affliction of Martin 100
- Part II Navajo Transformations 139
- 5 Ritual Healing and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Navajo Society 141
- 6 Talk to Them So They Understand 165
- 7 The Sore that Does Not Heal 194
- 8 Words from the Holy People 219
- Part III Modulations of Embodiment 239
- 9 Somatic Modes of Attention 241
- 10 Shades of Representation and Being in Virtual Reality 260.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ([297]-315) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0312293925
- 0312293917
- OCLC:
- 47625405
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