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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> “I want you to learn something very well” Isabel told me. It was the first night that I had participated in the all-night healing ritual that she and other curanderos in northern Peru refer to as a mesa. ?Whenever you help another person here [at] my mesa whenever you contribute you are liv- ing. You are experiencing and that is the way you enter into the movie (of life]. … To live is to experience. … You should save your tapes. They are you will learn very little from them. What you write won’t come from what you record but from what you live?from what you ex- perience. Reality isn’t observed or recorded it is lived!” Experience. This became the metaphor by which my understanding of female healing in Peru was organized. But because experience is one of the most problematic concepts in contemporary anthropology writing about the healing philosophies and therapeutic strategies of these women has been most difficult. In part the problem emerges because experience is a way of knowing that is grounded in reflexive engagement with the world. The origin of the term itself suggests that experience requires in- teraction of the experiencing subject with the object-world in a way that is processual and emergent.’ Experience eludes abstraction and analysis because these distance the experiencing subject from the context and process through which experience occurs. Another part of the experience problem is that the link between expe- rience and its perception never reflects a one-to-one correspondence. Rather one’s perception of the world ?out there” changes according to the way the senses encode received data. Emotional and interpretive land- scapes also influence how reality is perceived.