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100 1 $aPort, Mattijs van de,$d1961-
245 10 $aEcstatic encounters :$bBahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real /$cMattijs van de Port.
246 30 $aBahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real
246 30 $aQuest for the really real
260 $aAmsterdam :$bAmsterdam University Press,$c2011.
300 $a300 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"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 exculsion 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-293) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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, appartitions and the really real of Candomblé's miracle productions -- The permeable boundary. Media imagninaries 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.
650 0 $aCandomblé (Religion)$zBrazil$zBahia (State)
651 0 $aBahia (Brazil : State)$xReligion.
650 0 $aBlacks$zBrazil$zBahia (State)$xHistory.
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