■簡介
身體經驗研究群起始於本所李亦園院士主持之中研院主題計畫「文化、氣與傳統醫學科際綜合研究」，這個歷時三年的整合型計畫於2000年年底結束時，幾位人文學科的成員決定以討論會的形式繼續定期交換意見，期望這個研究主題能夠持續發展，因而於延攬多位相關領域的學者參加後，自2001年起以「氣的文化研究討論會」之名稱，開始定期舉辦讀書會及演講，並於2002年正式於民族所申請成立「身體經驗」研究群。研究群的成員包括人類學、史學、中國文學、宗教學、心理學、社會學與哲學等學科的學者，於2004年分別以「感同身受：日常生活與身體感的文化研究」及「感官經驗與中國傳統醫學」為題，申請中研院的主題計畫及蔣經國基金會計畫，並於2005年開始執行。研究成果也於近年陸續以專書論文集或學刊專號的型式出版，2008年於清華大學出版社出版《體物入微：物與身體感的研究》，2009年於Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 出版special issue Bodily Cultivation as a Mode of Learning，2011年於《考古人類學刊》出版專號《感同身受：日常生活的身體感》。
從2004年起，「身體感」即為研究積極發展的研究方向，研究群成員於2015年共同出版一本闡釋身體感理論概念的專書《身體感的轉向》，並於2018年以 “Why Shentigan Matters and How It Works” 為題中研院主題計畫獲得通過，並於2019年開始執行。
「身體感」（embodied feelings）乃指「以身體作為經驗的主體以感知體內與體外世界的知覺項目（categories），是人們於進行感知的行動（enact perception）中關注的焦點。經由這些焦點，我們展開探索這個世界的行動，做出判斷，並啟動反應。這些知覺項目包羅萬象，例如日常生活中最常出現之上下、高低、好壞、美醜、粗細…等，而至較複雜之氣、虛、神聖、世俗、傳統、現代…等感受的焦點，我們將這些感知的主題或焦點稱為身體感項目，並認為從這些身體感項目深入，可以開啟新的研究題目、觀點，乃至重新思考人類學的文化定義。2023年起，研究群也開始討論「身體感營造」（sense-making）的觀點，強調人們從身體感的項目感知這個世界的同時，我們也積極營造身體感組成的生活世界，研究群期望以此作為接續發展的方向。
■成立時間
2002年
■成員
召集人：余舜德
參與成員：丁亮、王驥懋、余舜德、吳欣怡、吳映青、呂心純、呂玫鍰、李尚仁、李建霖、林玲遠、高子壹、張珣、許嘉麟、許馨文、郭奇正、郭益昌、陳玉箴、陳寶蓮、劉延芳、蔡璧名、鍾蔚文、簡美玲、盧德真、陳柏安
■【English Summary】
Body Experience Research Group
Body Experience Research Group was inspired by the "Interdisciplinary Project of Culture, Chi, and Traditional Medicine" led by academician Li Yih-Yuan. When this three-year integrated project was completed at the end of 2000, several participants specializing in the humanities decided to continue to share their ideas and develop the topic at regular discussions. After a number of scholars in relevant fields were enlisted in the effort, regular book discussion meetings and lectures were held starting in 2001 under the name "Chi Culture Research and Discussion Society." This group formally applied to the Institute to establish the "Experience of the Body Research Team" in 2002. Members come from various disciplines, including anthropology, history, Chinese literature, religious studies, psychology, sociology and philosophy. In 2004 we separated into two groups and applied joint research projects from Academia Sinica and CCK Foundation, with the titles “Why Body Matters? Cultural Categories of Body Experience in Daily Life” and “Sensory Experience and Chinese Traditional Medicine,” both accepted. We began to publish our research results in recent years. In 2008 Tiwu ruwei: wu yu shentigan de yanjiou (體物入微：物與身體感的研究, Objects and the Experience of the Body) was published by National Tsing Hua University Press. In 2009 we published Bodily Cultivation as a Mode of Learning, special issue in Taiwan Journal of Anthropology; in 2011 Gantong shenshou: richang shenghuo de shentigan (感同身受：日常生活的身體感, or Everyday Life and the Experience of the Body) in Journal of Archeology and Anthropology.
Since 2004, this research team has been developing the shentigan (身體感or embodied feeling) approach. In 2015, we collectively published a book volume, Shentigan de zhuanxiang, (身體感的轉向or The Shentigan Turn), within which we attempted at exploring the theoretical significance of shentigan. Also. In 2018 we applied The Thematic Program, sponsored by Academia Sinica, with a three year join project called “Why Shentigan Matters and How It Works.” The project was funded in 2019.
We translate shentigan as “embodied feeling” that refers to cultural categories of perception; they are the focuses or themes when enact perception. Through these categories of embodied feelings, we explore the inner and outer worlds, make judgements and react. They include the everyday life categories like up and down, high and low, good and bad, pretty and ugly, rough and smooth, … and more sophisticated ones like embodied experiences of qi, sacredness, traditional, or modern…. We propose that studying these embodied feelings would allow us to develop new perspectives and research topics, and ultimately re-examine anthropological theories of culture. Starting from 2023, we began to discuss the idea of “sense-making” to emphasize that other than making sense of the world around us, we also constantly constructing the cultural sense-scape we live in.
Conveners: Yu, Shuenn-Der