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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Port, Mattijs van de
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Candomblé (Religion) > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Candomblé > Brésil > Bahia (État)
Humanities.
Religion and beliefs.
Aspects of religion (non-Christian)
Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Candomblé (Religion)
Candomblé
Bahia (Brazil : State) > Religious life and customs.
Bahia (Brésil : État) > Vie religieuse.
Brazil > Bahia (State)
Bahia
Anthropology
Anthropologie
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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