Kalpana Ram is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University and Director of the India Research Centre. Her books include Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocations of the Modern.

Christopher Houston is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University. His books include Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves (IUP, 2008).

edited by Kalpana Ram, Christopher Houston, afterword by Michael Jackson, with contributions by Jaap Timmer, Daniel Fisher, Ian Bedford, Robert Desjarlais, Deborah Van Heekeren, Monica Dalidowicz, C. Jason Throop, OtherTomaso Wilkoszewski, with contributions by Lisa L. Wynn

Introduction: Phenomenology's Methodological Invitation Kalpana Ram and Christopher Houston
1. Moods and Method: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on Emotion and Understanding Kalpana Ram
2. Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Body-World Relations Thomas J. Csordas
3. Sacred Suffering: A Phenomenological Anthropological Perspective C. Jason Throop
4. Being 'Sita': Physical Affects in the North Indian Dance of kathak Monica Dalidowicz
5. Beneath the Horizon: The Organic Body's Role in Athletic Experience Greg Downey
6. Unmeasured Music and Silence Ian Bedford
7. Experiencing Self-Abstraction: Studio Production and Vocal Consciousness Daniel Fisher
8. Being-in-the-Covenant: Reflections on the Crisis of Historicism in North Malaita, Solomon Islands Jaap Timmer
9. Seared with Reality: Phenomenology through Photography, in Nepal Robert Desjarlais
10. Writing Affect, Love and Desire into Ethnography L.L. Wynn
11. Senses of Magic: Anthropology, Art, and Christianity in the Vula'a Lifeworld Deborah Van Heekeren
12. Neither Things in Themselves nor Only for Someone: Anthropology, Phenomenology and Poetry Christopher Houston
Afterword Michael Jackson