TY  - BOOK
AU  - van de Port,Mattijs
AU  - Cahen,Joel
AU  - Hansen,Michael W.
AU  - de Haan,Ido
TI  - Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real 
SN  - 9789089642981
U1  - 970.980 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048513963?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048513963
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048513963/original
ER  -