Ecstatic encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the unknown /

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Author / Creator:Port, Mattijs van de, 1961-
Imprint:Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (252 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11102912
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ISBN:9789048513963
9048513960
9789089642981
9089642986
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"For over a hundred years, writers, artists, anthropologists and tourists have travelled to Bahia, Brazil, in search of the spirit possession cult called Candomblé. Thus, successive generations of cultists have seen a long, steady stream of curious outsiders coming to their temples with notebooks and cameras, questions and inquisitive gazes, or ogling eyes and the hope of inclusion. This study asks what seduced these outsiders to seek access to the Afro-Brazilian religious universe and, conversely, how did cultists respond to the overwhelming interest in their creed and to becoming an object of the outsiders' imaginations."--Amazon.
Al ruim honderd jaar bezoeken reizigers de bezetenheidscultus Candomblé in Bahia, Brazilië. Mattijs van de Port verkent de lange geschiedenis van deze ontmoetingen met de Afro-Braziliaanze wereld. Wat dachten deze bezoekers van de dansen, de bloedige initiatieriten, de mysterieuze geestesverschijning? Hoe verbonden zijn hun observaties met hun eigen leven? Van de Port laat ook zien hoe de gelovigen reageerden op deze overweldigende belangstelling. Cultleden en buitenstaanders grijpen de confrontatie met het mysterieuze aan om de beperkingen van hun eigen wereldbeelden te onderkennen.
Other form:Print version: Port. Ecstatic encounters. Bahian Candomble and the quest for the unknown. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2011 9789089642981