Ecstatic encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real /

Ecstatic encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real /

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Author / Creator:	Port, Mattijs van de.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (300 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Subject:	Candomblé (Religion) -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Candomblé (Religion) Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Religious life and customs. Brazil -- Bahia (State)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11399057

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ISBN:	9789048513963 9048513960 9089642986 9789089642981 9789089642981 9786613231789 6613231789 9781283231787 1283231786
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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.
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
Standard no.:	10.1515/9789048513963

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Summary:	<p>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.</p> "Thriving in the gap between the sensuous fullness of life and the impossibility of its cultural representation, Ecstatic Encounters opens mind-blowing vistas for 'writing culture' in anthropology today."-- Birgit Meyer, Free University of Amsterdam.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (300 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789048513963 9048513960 9089642986 9789089642981 9786613231789 6613231789 9781283231787 1283231786