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Citation |
Uzendoski M. Anthropol. Humanism. 2008; 33(1‐2): 12-29. |
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(Copyright © 2008, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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Abstract |
In this article, I explore two healing experiences, one in Amazonian Ecuador and the other in Amazonian Peru. I argue that these experiences can be theorized through the idea of “somatic poetry,” which I define as the process of making and experiencing beauty so that life and the story become part of the same thread. I discuss how somatic poetry involves drama and coauthoring with nonhuman natural beings, including spirits. I also explore how somatic poetry works textually in interconnecting past lives, history, myth, the body, and the myriad and various subjectivities of the Amazonian landscape. |