Dear All,
We invite paper proposals for the panel ‘Spirituality and Health: Epistemologies of Healing and the Ethnographic Encounter’ to be held at the 18th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil, on 16-20 July 2018.
Please, circulate this to those who might be interested.
Convenors:
Emily Pierini (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
Alberto Groisman (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
Therapeutic itineraries often unfold across different approaches to wellbeing posing new challenges to patients, healers and medical professionals. This panel explores the entanglements of spirituality and biomedicine in people’s experiences of healing, specifically asking: how do people make sense of and use different epistemologies of illness and healing in their therapeutic itinerary? How to they either draw, shift, or cross the boundaries between spiritual and medical approaches? How do they understand and apply notions of ‘efficacy’ and ‘evidence’ in their therapeutic experiences? How they deal with the power relations between the different approaches? How do they consider the relationships of negotiation and processes of decision implicated?
Researching these experiences, contexts and itineraries, demands that also ethnographers address particular methodological challenges. How could ethnographic knowledge approach the tension between different epistemologies of healing coexisting in people’s experiences? What kinds of methodological and ethical challenges arise in the ethnographic encounter with people in, or moving between, the fields of spirituality and biomedicine?
We invite papers discussing ethnographic research in groups practising spiritual healing, among patients following both biomedical and spiritual therapeutic itineraries, and health professionals using conventional and non-conventional therapeutic approaches to healing.
Keywords: spirituality; health; wellbeing; healing; therapeutic itineraries
Abstract submission: <http://www.inscricoes.iuaes2018.org/trabalho/view?ID_TRABALHO=68> http://www.inscricoes.iuaes2018.org/trabalho/view?ID_TRABALHO=68
Thematic axis: 19. Health and Medical Anthropology
Open Panel: 162. Spirituality and Health: Epistemologies of Healing and the Ethnographic Encounter
Languages accepted for paper presentations: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Deadline: 28 February 2018
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Prezado(a)s,
Convidamos propostas de trabalho para o painel "Espiritualidade e Saúde: Epistemologias de Cura e o Encontro Etnográfico" que se realizará no 18º Congresso Mundial da União Internacional de Ciências Antropológicas e Etnologias, que acontecerá na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brasil, entre 16 e 20 de julho de 2018.
Por favor, circule isso entre aqueles que possam estar interessados.
Coordenadores:
Emily Pierini (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
Alberto Groisman (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)
Os itinerários terapêuticos geralmente se desenvolvem em diferentes abordagens para o bem-estar, colocando novos desafios para pacientes, curadores e profissionais de saúde. Este painel explora os entrecruzamentos entre espiritualidade e biomedicina nas experiências de cura das pessoas, perguntando especificamente: como as pessoas fazem sentido e usam diferentes epistemologias associadas à doenças e cura em seu itinerário terapêutico? Como desenham, mudam ou cruzam os limites entre abordagens espirituais e biomédicas? Como eles entendem e aplicam noções de "eficácia" e "evidência" em suas experiências terapêuticas? Como lidam com as relações de poder entre as diferentes abordagens? Como eles consideram as relações de negociação e processos de decisão implicados?
Pesquisar essas experiências, contextos e itinerários, exige que os etnógrafos enfrentem desafios metodológicos particulares. Como o conhecimento etnográfico pode abordar as tensões entre diferentes epistemologias de cura que coexistem nas experiências das pessoas? Quais os tipos de desafios metodológicos e éticos que surgem no encontro etnográfico com as pessoas que transitam entre os campos da espiritualidade e da biomedicina?
Convidamos trabalhos que discutam pesquisas etnográficas em grupos que praticam a cura espiritual, entre pacientes que seguem itinerários terapêuticos biomédicos e espirituais, e profissionais de saúde que usam abordagens terapêuticas convencionais e não convencionais para a cura.
Palavras-chave: espiritualidade; saúde; bem-estar; cura; itinerários terapêuticos
Dr Emily Pierini
Religious Experience Research Centre
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Lampeter, UK
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http://lamp.academia.edu/EmilyPierini
Latest publications: Fieldwork in Religion: Bodily Experience and Ethnographic Knowledge, JSRE Special Issue, http://rerc-journal.tsd.ac.uk/index.php/religiousexp/issue/view/4
Becoming a Spirit Medium: Initiatory Learning and the Self in the Vale do Amanhecer, Ethnos,
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2014.929598
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