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Author Port, Mattijs van de.

Title Ecstatic encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real / Mattijs van de Port.

Imprint Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (300 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
text file PDF rda
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Introduction: Avenida Oceânica : Candomblé, mystery and the-rest-of-what-is in process of world-making -- On Immersion : Academics and the seductions of a baroque society -- Mysteries are invisible : Understanding images in the Bahia of Dr Raimundo Nina Rodrigues -- Re-encoding the primative : Surrealist appreciations of Candomlé in a violence-ridden world -- Abstracting Candomblé : Defining the 'public' and the 'particular' dimensions of a spirit possession cult -- Allegorical worlds : Baroque aesthetics and the notion of an 'absent truth' -- Bafflement Politics : Possessions, apparitions and the really real of Candomblé's miracle productions -- The permeable boundary : Media imaginaries in Candomblé's public performance of authenticity -- Conclusions: Cracks in the wall : Invocations of the rest-of-what-is the anthropological study of world-making.
Summary Reality does not comply with our narrations of it. And that is most certainly the case with the narrations produced in academia. An anthropologist in Bahia, Brazil, fears to become possessed by the spirits he had come to study; falls madly in love with an 'informant'; finds himself baffled by the sayings of a clairvoyant; and has to come to grips with the murder of one of his best friends. Unsettling events that do not belong to the orderly world of scientific research, yet leave their imprint on the way the anthropologist comes to understand the world. REflecting on his long research experience with the spirit possession cult Candomblé, the author shows, in a probing manner, how definitions of reality always require the exclusion of certain perceptions, experiences and insights. And yet, this 'rest-of-what-is' turns out to be an inexhaustible source of amazement, seduction and renewal."--P [4] of cover.
Language English.
Subject Candomblé (Religion) -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Religious life and customs.
Candomblé -- Brésil -- Bahia (État)
Bahia (Brésil : État) -- Vie religieuse.
Humanities.
Religion and beliefs.
Aspects of religion (non-Christian)
Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Candomblé (Religion)
Brazil -- Bahia (State) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRkpYfRdc7j4DvyY9FfY
Candomblé
Bahia
Indexed Term Anthropology
Anthropologie
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access. JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Van de Port, Mattijs. Ecstatic Encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2011 9789089642981
ISBN 9789048513963 (electronic bk.)
9048513960 (electronic bk.)
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9789089642981
9789089642981
9786613231789 (electronic bk.)
6613231789
9781283231787 (online)
1283231786
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