Ecstatic encounters [electronic resource] : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real / Mattijs van de Port.
Port, Mattijs van de, 1961-
2011
BL2592.C35 P67 2011eb
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Title Ecstatic encounters [electronic resource] : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real / Mattijs van de Port.
Author Port, Mattijs van de, 1961-
ISBN 9789048513963 (electronic bk.)
9789089642981
Publication Details Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (300 p., [16] leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.)
Call Number BL2592.C35 P67 2011eb
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.
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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 primitive : 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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