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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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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