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Beyond Pain: The Anthropology of Body Suspensions by Federica Manfredi; is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond Pain: The Anthropology of Body Suspensions about?
<p> The practice of body suspension — piercing one’s own flesh with metal hooks and hanging from them — and its uniquely sprawling community challenge our cultural understanding of pain. The suspendees experience physical suffering to trigger altered states of consciousness that help them define and create an enhanced version of the self. Through experimental and practice-based methodology, Beyond Pain combines thirteen years of intermittent ethnographical fieldwork during suspension festivals a
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Federica Manfredi;
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781805395256
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Folklore, Anthropology, Performing Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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