Inhabiting Silence
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Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister(13 European Anthropology in Translation)

Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister(13 European Anthropology in Translation)


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Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world but do not allow others to have access. This has often resulted in research based on indirect sources. This volume is the result of observant participation in which the ethnographer is a protagonist social actor in two French monasteries of Discalced Carmelite nuns. The author experiences and narrates details of their everyday life that usually remain unseen but contribute to shaping community-building processes and, at the same time, construe the religious woman.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Simon Ditchfield Notes on Text Prologue Chapter 1. Relationality of Silence Chapter 2. The Silence of Their God Chapter 3. Alone among the Others Chapter 4. Negated Bodies Chapter 5. Subjects’ Objectification Afterword Fabio Dei References Appendix: Photographs in Silence, Photographs of Silence by Franco Zecchin

About the Author :
Francesca Sbardella is an anthropologist and historian of religion and a Professor at the University of Bologna. She is the co-director of the Research Center Eidola, Materiality, Cognition and History of Religions and of the Laboratorio Permanente di Etnografia della cultura materiale (LECuMa).

Review :
“Francesca Sbardella enters the monasteries on tiptoe, and leads us into the refectory and the bare cells to report the conversations that the nuns weave during their few minutes of recreation. Attentive to the gestures, the rites and the glances that weigh as much or perhaps more than words.” • Libero, Lucia Esposito


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  • ISBN-13: 9781836951230
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 13 European Anthropology in Translation
  • ISBN-10: 183695123X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • No of Pages: 254
  • Sub Title: An Anthropologist in the Cloister


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