Ecstatic Encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real /
van de Port, Mattijs
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. - 1 online resource (316 p.)
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
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9789089642981 9789048513963
10.1515/9789048513963 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
970.980
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. - 1 online resource (316 p.)
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
Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9789089642981 9789048513963
10.1515/9789048513963 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
970.980