The body remembers

Narrating Embodied Reconciliations of Eating Disorder and Recovery

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7640824
AutoresK Eli (0000-0001-9132-8404, University of Oxford, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen23
Número1
Páginas71-85
Fecha de publicación2016-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropology and Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1364-8470 • E-ISSN: 1469-2910
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13648470.2015.1135786
PMID26982433
OpenAlexW2300493551
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas35

After severe illness, there are stories: narrative strands to suture discontinuities of identities, practices, and lives. But within these narratives of illness and recovery, the body's discontinuities stand apart, striking in the materiality of change, in the tangible multiplicity of bodies - healthy, ill, recovering, recovered - that a person can call one's own. Based on longitudinal research interviews with Israeli women who identified as recovered from long-term eating disorders (fieldwork conducted in 2005-2006 and in 2011), this paper explores how these bodily discontinuities are expressed, drawing particular attention to the narrative role of embodied memory in linking past and present-tense bodies and selves. Embodied memory, as narrated by the participants, is deeply, sometimes surprisingly, embedded in lived experience, imbuing recovered bodies with moments of sensory continuity, the past coming into presence through forms of sensation and perception learned at the height of disorder. Examining narrative moments of sensory remembrance, this paper analyses how participants narrate embodied memory as a mode of reflection, self-protection, and dynamic integration, wherein the experience of disorder informs practices of recovery, and the body becomes a site for the reconciliation of past and present

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