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Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real

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An edition of Ecstatic encounters (2011)

Ecstatic encounters

Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real

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"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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Amsterdam University Press
Language
English
Pages
300

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Subjects

Candomblé (Religion), Religion, Blacks, History, Brazil, Aspects of religion (non-Christian), Religion & beliefs, Sociology & anthropology, Umbanda, Blacks / Brazil / Bahia (State) / History, Candomblé, Candomblé (Religion) / Brazil / Bahia (State), Religionsethnologie, Candomble (cult), Brazil, religion

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Brazil, Bahia (Brazil : State), Bahia (State)
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-293) and index.

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Amsterdam [Netherlands]
Other Titles
Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real, Quest for the really real

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Dewey Decimal Class
970.980
Library of Congress
BL2592.C35 P667 2011, GN, BL2592.C35 P67 2011

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300 p. :
Number of pages
300

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OL25248129M
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9089642986
ISBN 13
9789089642981
LCCN
2012367534
OCLC/WorldCat
706650006

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