LEADER 03619nam 22006492 450 001 996465266703316 005 20220412140537.0 010 $a1-283-23178-6 010 $a9786613231789 010 $a90-485-1396-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048513963 035 $a(CKB)2670000000112996 035 $a(EBL)752448 035 $a(OCoLC)781241379 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000507556 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12180260 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000507556 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10551243 035 $a(PQKB)10432396 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC752448 035 $a(DE-B1597)532971 035 $a(OCoLC)1110709074 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048513963 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789048513963 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL752448 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10493672 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL323178 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000112996 100 $a20210106d2011|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEcstatic encounters $eBahian Candomble? and the quest for the really real /$fMattijs van de Port$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (300 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021). 311 $a90-8964-298-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Avenida Ocea?nica : Candomble?, 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 Candomle? in a violence-ridden world -- Abstracting Candomble? : 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 Candomble?'s miracle productions -- The permeable boundary : Media imaginaries in Candomble?'s public performance of authenticity -- Conclusions: Cracks in the wall : Invocations of the rest-of-what-is the anthropological study of world-making. 330 $aFor over a hundred years, writers, artists, anthropologists and tourists have travelled to Bahia, Brazil, in search of the spirit possession cult called Candomble?. 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. 517 3 $aBahian Candomble? and the quest for the really real 517 3 $aQuest for the really real 606 $aCandomble? (Religion)$zBrazil$zBahia (State) 606 $aBlack people$zBrazil$zBahia (State)$xHistory 607 $aBahia (Brazil : State)$xReligion 615 0$aCandomble? (Religion) 615 0$aBlack people$xHistory. 676 $a970.980 700 $aPort$b Mattijs van de$f1961-$0946116 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996465266703316 996 $aEcstatic encounters$92137483 997 $aUNISA