Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Avenida OceânicaCandomblé, Mystery and the-rest-of-what-is in Processes 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
- Bibliography
- index
- Plate Section
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Avenida OceânicaCandomblé, Mystery and the-rest-of-what-is in Processes 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
- Bibliography
- index
- Plate Section
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- Ecstatic EncountersBahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real, pp. 5 - 6Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2011