Ecstatic Encounters

Mattijs van de Port is an anthropologist and works at the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam.

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Mattijs van de Port is an anthropologist and works at the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam.

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Preface

Introduction: Avenida Oceânica: Candomblé, mystery and the-rest-of-what-is in process of world-making

1. On Immersion: Academics and the seductions of a baroque society
2. Mysteries are Invisible: Understanding images in the Bahia of Dr Raimundo Nina Rodrigues
3. Re-encoding the Primitive: Surrealist appreciations of Candomblé in a violence-ridden world
4. Abstracting Candomblé: Defining the 'public' and the 'particular' dimensions of a spirit possession cult
5. Allegorical Worlds: Baroque aesthetics and the notion of an 'absent truth'
6. Bafflement Politics: Possessions, apparitions and the really real of Candomblé's miracle productions

7. The Permeable Boundary: Media imaginaries in Candomblé's public performance of authenticity
   Conclusions: Cracks in the Wall: Invocations of the-rest-of-what-is in the anthropological study of world-making

   Notes
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   Index