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

Table of 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.

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