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Ecstatic encounters Bahian Candombl©♭ and the quest for the really real / Mattijs van de Port.
| Author/creator | Port, Mattijs van de, 1961- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, |
| Description | 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Bahian Candombl©♭ and the quest for the really real |
| Portion of title | Quest for the really real |
| Contents | Introduction: Avenida Oce©Ønica : Candombl©♭, 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 Candoml©♭ in a violence-ridden world -- Abstracting Candombl©♭ : 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 Candombl©♭'s miracle productions -- The permeable boundary : Media imaginaries in Candombl©♭'s public performance of authenticity -- Conclusions: Cracks in the wall : Invocations of the rest-of-what-is the anthropological study of world-making. |
| 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 Candombl©♭, 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-293) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012367534 |
| ISBN | 9789089642981 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9089642986 (pbk.) |