Ecstatic Encounters : : Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real / / Mattijs van de Port; ed. by Joel Cahen, Michael W. Hansen, Ido de Haan.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Avenida Oceânica -- 1. On Immersion -- 2. Mysteries Are Invisible -- 3. Re-Encoding The Primitive -- 4. Abstracting Candomblé -- 5. Allegorical Worlds -- 6. Bafflement Politics -- 7. The Permeable Boundary -- Conclusions Cracks In The Wall -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. "Thriving in the gap between the sensuous fullness of life and the impossibility of its cultural representation, Ecstatic Encounters opens mind-blowing vistas for 'writing culture' in anthropology today."- Birgit Meyer, Free University of Amsterdam. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9789048513963 9783110700671 9783111023786 9783110662788 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9789048513963?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | Open Access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Mattijs van de Port; ed. by Joel Cahen, Michael W. Hansen, Ido de Haan. |