@article{438862,
      author = {Port, Mattijs van de,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438862},
      title = {Ecstatic encounters Bahian Candomblé and the quest for  the really real / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Amsterdam University Press,},
      abstract = {"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.},
      recid = {438862},
      pages = {1 online resource (300 p., [16] leaves of plates) :},
      address = {Amsterdam :},
      year = {2011},
}