"Being hanged by hooks is an unspeakable experience”. Fieldwork notes on sensory challenges and experimental forms of self-narrative

Anthropologists have been trained for years to approach the world through words as main form of data-collection, data-analysis and data-report. In this paper I will expose considerations about these three fundamental steps of the ethnographical labor focusing on an experimental strategy developed during my ongoing research on body suspension. During the fieldwork, I am studying meaningful body experiences that constitute a methodological challenge due to the centrality of the body, the declared inadequacy of words to express the experience, the sensorial dimension of the practice, the creative inclination of the audience as well as their passion for other forms of body modification narrated as related to the body suspension.