Ecstatic encounters
Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real
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Author
Publication
2011 - Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam [Netherlands, Netherlands
Language
English
Word Count
75,000 words, Guess
Page Count
300 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveecstaticencounte00port
- Internet Archiveecstaticencounte0000vand
- ISBN-109089642986
- ISBN-139789089642981
- OCLC Control Number706650006
and 2 more
- Better World Books9789089642981
- Open LibraryOL25248129M
Classifications
- DDC970.980
- LCCBL2592.C35 P667 2011
- LCCGN
and 1 more
- LCCBL2592.C35 P67 2011
Alternate Titles
- Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real
- Quest for the really real
Description
"Reality does not comply with our narrations of it. And that is most certainly the case with the narrations produced in academia. An anthropologist in Bahia, Brazil, fears to become possessed by the spirits he had come to study; falls madly in love with an 'informant'; finds himself baffled by the sayings of a clairvoyant; and has to come to grips with the murder of one of his best friends. Unsettling events that do not belong to the orderly world of scientific research, yet leave their imprint on the way the anthropologist comes to understand the world. REflecting on his long research experience with the spirit possession cult Candomblé, the author shows, in a probing manner, how definitions of reality always require the exclusion of certain perceptions, experiences and insights. And yet, this 'rest-of-what-is' turns out to be an inexhaustible source of amazement, seduction and renewal." --P [4] of cover.
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