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- ISBN 9781805391173
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) is the place where the worlds of the living and the spirits merge and the boundaries between lives are regularly crossed. Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, the author explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides. She sheds light on the ways in which mediumistic development in the Vale do Amanhecer is used for therapeutic purposes and informs notions of body and self, of illness and wellbeing.
Emily Pierini is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Marie Skłodowska–Curie Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Her recent publications include the volume Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing (Berghahn, 2023), which she co-edited with Alberto Groisman and Diana Espírito Santo
