Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real

Mattijs van de Port

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Ecstatic Encounters

Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real

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Mattijs van de Port
Edited by Michael W. Hansen, Ido de Haan, Joel Cahen

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: January 2021
Print publication year:: 2011
Online ISBN:: 9789048513963
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048513963

Subjects:: Physical Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology

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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.

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Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

Preface
pp 7-10

Introduction: Avenida OceânicaCandomblé, Mystery and the-rest-of-what-is in Processes of World-Making
pp 11-46

1 - On Immersion: Academics and the Seductions of a Baroque Society
pp 47-68

2 - Mysteries are Invisible: Understanding images in the Bahia of Dr Raimundo Nina Rodrigues
pp 69-98

3 - Re-encoding the Primitive: Surrealist appreciations of Candomblé in a Violence-Ridden world
pp 99-126

4 - Abstracting Candomblé: Defining the ‘Public’ and the ‘Particular’ Dimensions of a Spirit Possession Cult
pp 127-158

5 - Allegorical Worlds: Baroque Aesthetics and the Notion of an ‘Absent Truth’
pp 159-182

6 - Bafflement Politics: Possessions, Apparitions and the Really Real of Candomblé’s Miracle Productions
pp 183-214

7 - The Permeable Boundary: Media Imaginaries in Candomblé’s Public Performance of Authenticity
pp 215-248

Conclusions Cracks in the Wall: Invocations of the-rest-of-what-is in the Anthropological Study of World-Making
pp 249-262

Notes
pp 263-272

Bibliography
pp 273-294

index
pp 295-300

Plate Section
pp 301-316

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