Ecstatic encounters Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real
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 an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432623406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
