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Record Nr.

UNISA996465266703316

Autore

Port Mattijs van de <1961->

Titolo

Ecstatic encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real / / Mattijs van de Port [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-23178-6

9786613231789

90-485-1396-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

970.980

Soggetti

Candomblé (Religion) - Brazil - Bahia (State)

Black people - Brazil - Bahia (State) - History

Bahia (Brazil : State) Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

For over a hundred years, writers, artists, anthropologists and tourists have travelled to Bahia, Brazil, in search of the spirit possession cult called Candomblé. Thus, successive generations of cultists have seen a long, steady stream of curious outsiders coming to their temples with notebooks and cameras, questions and inquisitive gazes, or ogling eyes and the hope of inclusion. This study asks what seduced these



outsiders to seek access to the Afro-Brazilian religious universe and, conversely, how did cultists respond to the overwhelming interest in their creed and to becoming an object of the outsiders? imaginations.