فراتر از درد: انسان‌شناسی معلق کردن بدن

The practice of body suspension piercing ones 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. Contents Illustrations Foreword — The Modifiable Flesh: Rethinking Body and Identity Projects, Moving beyond Parts Introduction — Suspension, This Project, and Me Chapter 1 — A History of Body Suspensions 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 to Earth Conclusions References Index