...This chapter focuses on pilgrims to the holy places and how they construed their sensory engagement with the holy sites. Significant here is their understanding of the “eye of faith,” an expression that stood for a broad range of visual and visionary experiences, including instances of conjuring...

...This chapter discusses the implications of several kinds of performative and cultural elaborations of balance, mostly focusing on the way that balance is ideologically reinforced through embodied practices and sensory engagement in a certain (Anlo) cultural context. It includes an account of two...