9789089642981 - Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real de Van De Port, Mattijs (13 résultats)

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Ecstatic Encounters takes its readers to the threshold of Candomble temples in Bahia, Brazil, where, for many generations -- members of this spirit-possession cult and curious outsiders have been meeting to marvel at each other's otherness. Having allowed himself to be baffled by Candomble's mysteries and miracle productions, the author explores the notion of 'the-rest-of-what-is': the excess that is the inevitable by-product of all reality definitions; the non-sensical that is the surplus of all culturally informed sense-making. Ethnographical insights in Afro-Brazilian mysticism are thus made to speak to anthropological forms of world-making, in a study that rejects the totalizing pretensions of all reality definitions, emphatically including those of academia. The theoretical importance of this book lies in its critical assessment of the constructivist paradigm that long dominates cultural and social anthropology. Adopting the Lacanian premise that the meaningful worlds we inhabit are lacking, and depend on fantasy and make-belief to be perceived as coherent, persuasive and incontestable, this study argues that the analysis of cultural forms should always include an exploration of the processes of cultural enchantment that endow man-made worlds of meaning with a sense of the really real.Ecstatic Encounters is written in an accessible, engaging, literary style. Philosophical issues are taken out on the streets, to be pondered in the face of everyday life; just as mundane dimensions of being are allowed to soil the conventional proprieties of academic text production. This book takes its readers to the threshold of Candomble temples in Bahia, Brazil, where for many generations -- members of this spirit-possession cult and curious outsiders have been meeting to marvel at each others otherness. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 01 edition. 300 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Etat : New. pp. 316.

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Etat : New. pp. 316.

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - For over a hundred years, writers, artists, anthropologists and tourists have travelled to Bahia, Brazil, in search of the spirit possession cult called Candomble. Thus, successive generations of cultists have seen a long, steady stream of curious outsiders coming to their temples with not Elektronisches Buch 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.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Ecstatic Encounters takes its readers to the threshold of Candomble temples in Bahia, Brazil, where, for many generations -- members of this spirit-possession cult and curious outsiders have been meeting to marvel at each other's otherness. Having allowed himself to be baffled by Candomble's mysteries and miracle productions, the author explores the notion of 'the-rest-of-what-is': the excess that is the inevitable by-product of all reality definitions; the non-sensical that is the surplus of all culturally informed sense-making. Ethnographical insights in Afro-Brazilian mysticism are thus made to speak to anthropological forms of world-making, in a study that rejects the totalizing pretensions of all reality definitions, emphatically including those of academia. The theoretical importance of this book lies in its critical assessment of the constructivist paradigm that long dominates cultural and social anthropology. Adopting the Lacanian premise that the meaningful worlds we inhabit are lacking, and depend on fantasy and make-belief to be perceived as coherent, persuasive and incontestable, this study argues that the analysis of cultural forms should always include an exploration of the processes of cultural enchantment that endow man-made worlds of meaning with a sense of the really real.Ecstatic Encounters is written in an accessible, engaging, literary style. Philosophical issues are taken out on the streets, to be pondered in the face of everyday life; just as mundane dimensions of being are allowed to soil the conventional proprieties of academic text production. This book takes its readers to the threshold of Candomble temples in Bahia, Brazil, where for many generations -- members of this spirit-possession cult and curious outsiders have been meeting to marvel at each others otherness. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.