Beyond Pain

The Anthropology of Body Suspensions

Federica Manfredi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

318 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-524-9 (ISBN)

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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 and private events in Italy, Portugal, and Norway, along with online sites such as Facebook groups, to uncover the often silenced and misunderstood voices of the people who undertake this practice.

Federica Manfredi is a Fellow Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Torino (Italy), where she investigates the medicalization of womens' sexuality and illegitimate forms of genital pain through experimental qualitative methodologies. Working with artists, designers and sociologists, she curated the itinerant exhibition “Vulvar Pain. Art. Science. Resistance” as experiment of participative dissemination.

List of Illustrations

Prologue

Introducing suspension, this project and me

Chapter 1. A History of Body Suspension

Chapter 2. Other Stories about Suspensions

Chapter 3. The Body Suspension Community

Chapter 4. The Summer

Chapter 5. Suspensions and Suspendees Online

Chapter 6. There is So Much More Beyond Pain

Chapter 7. Coming Back Down on Earth

Conclusions

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-524-6 / 1805395246
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-524-9 / 9781805395249
Zustand	Neuware