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Rethinking Anthropological Studies of the Body: Manas and Bōdham in Kerala

Halliburton, Murphy·2002·American Anthropologist
DOI 10.1525/aa.2002.104.4.1123
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Anthropological research that focuses on the body has been prolific in the last two decades. This trend has provided an important reorientation away from a tendency to focus on mental representations of experience and has allowed for a more holistic understanding of the human condition. However, this article argues that much research on the body has created a false dichotomy: Westerners are seen as living in a world of mentalistic bias and mind–body dualism while all others are understood as more grounded in their bodies. Ethnographic research conducted among people suffering psychopathology and possession in Kerala, India, challenges these assumptions about the embodied Other by showing that these patients experience a continuum of states of being that includes the body, mind, consciousness, and self/soul. This approach demonstrates how an examination of a local culturally and historically formed phenomenological orientation can provide a useful alternative to the tendency to discover embodied peoples. [Keywords: body, embodiment, India, Kerala]

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Authors
Halliburton, M.
Affiliations
Queens College, CUNY (US)
Corresponding author
Halliburton, Murphy
Venue
American Anthropologist
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2002-12
Volume
104
Issue
4
Pages
1123-1134
ISSN
  • 0002-7294 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-1433
DOI
10.1525/aa.2002.104.4.1123
OpenAlex
W2171337298
Cited by
50
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1
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FWCI
7.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 1863 d)
Locations
American Anthropologist (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Keywords
body, embodiment, mana, possession, psychopathology, mind-body dualism, phenomenology, soul, self, Kerala

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