Body/Meaning/Healing
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 ra
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CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION Robert Hefner, Series Editor Boston University Published by Palgrave Macrnillan
Body / Meaning /Healing By Thomas J. Csordas
Body /Meaning/Healing
Thamas J. Csardas
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BODV!MEANING!HEALING © ThDmas J. Csordas, 2002 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2002 978-0-312-29391-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, NewYork, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-0-312-29392-5 ISBN 978-1-137-08286-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-08286-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Csordas, Thomas J. Body!meaninglhealing!by Thomas J. Csordas p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Spiritual healing. I. Title. BL65.M4 C75 2002 291.3'1-dc21
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CONTENTS
Credits
V111
Introduction
1
Part I
9
1 2 3 4
The Rhetoric ofTransformation in Ritual Healing Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology A Handmaid's Tale The Ailliction of Martin
Part 11 5 6 7 8
Navajo Transformations
Ritual Healing and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Navajo Society Talk to Them So They Understand The Sore that Does Not Heal Words from the Holy People
Part 111 9 10
Charismatic Transformations
11
58 88 100 139
141 165
194 219
Modulations of Embodiment
239
Somatic Modes of Attention Shades of Representation and Being in Virtual Reality
241 260
Notes
285
Bibliography
297
Indexes
317
CREDITS
Chapter One is a synthesis of "The Rhetoric of Transformation in Ritual Healing," originally in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (1983) 7:333-375 and "Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing," Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1988) 2:121-142. Chapter Two was originally published as "Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology, the 1988 StirlingAward Essay," Ethos (1990) 18:5-47. Chapter Three was originally published as "A Handmaid's Tale: The Rhetoric of Personhood in American and Japanese Healing of Abortions," in Carolyn Sargent and Caroline Brettell, eds., Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall (1996), pp. 227-241. Reprinted by permission ofPearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, N.J. Chapter Four was originally published as "The Aflliction of Martin: Religious, Clinical, and Phenomenological Meani