Abstract

MORA, ANA SABRINA. RESEARCHER BODY, RESEARCHED BODY. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE PUERPERIUM EXPERIENCE. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2009, vol.45, n.1, pp.11-38. ISSN 0486-6525.

The objective of this article is to explore the usefulness of phenomenological descriptions, including the detailed experiences of who conducts the research, as part of a socioanthropological research on the body and sexuality in particular, for the analysis of puerperium and some associated experiences in the contemporary Western world. It attempts to integrate phenomenological methods and postructuralist analytical frameworks. It starts with the idea that the observation of intense vital events such as childbirth and puerperium is a way to acquire knowledge of all those bodily experiences that have repercussions on subjectivity, and considers the body and the subject as an indissoluble unit that can only be understood in this imbrication, as proposed by the notion of embodiment

Keywords : puerperium; embodiment; phenomenology.

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