Ecstatic encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real / Mattijs van de Port.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Port, Mattijs van de, 1961- author.

Contributor:

Hansen, Michael W., editor.

de Haan, Ido, editor.

Cahen, Joël, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Candomblé--Brazil--Bahia (State).

Candomblé.

Black people--Brazil--Bahia (State)--History.

Black people.

Bahia (Brazil : State)--Religion.

Bahia (Brazil : State).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real

Quest for the really real

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 10 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-69457-8

1-04-078153-5

1-283-23178-6

9786613231789

90-485-1396-0

9781003694571

OCLC:

781241379

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access