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

• Autore: Port Mattijs van de <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 970.980
• Soggetto topico: Candomblé (Religion) - Brazil - Bahia (State); Black people - Brazil - Bahia (State) - History
• Soggetto geografico: Bahia (Brazil : State) Religion
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real; Quest for the really real
• Titolo autorizzato: Ecstatic encounters
• ISBN: 1-283-23178-6; 9786613231789; 90-485-1396-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996465266703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno