Contents - 6 Preface - 8 Introduction - 12 1 On Immersion - 48 2 Mysteries are Invisible - 70 3 Re-encoding the Primitive - 100 4 Abstracting Candomblé - 128 5 Allegorical Worlds - 160 6 Bafflement Politics - 184 7 The Permeable Boundary - 216 Conclusions - 250 Notes - 264 Bibliography - 274 Index - 296
Mattijs van de Port is an anthropologist and works at the University of Amsterdam and the VU University Amsterdam.
"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, VU University Amsterdam.
"This is a daring, beautiful book. Van de Port is an exceptional
writer. But by praising his literary skill, I do not mean to imply
that this is one more experimental, confessional,embarrassing
autoethnography. Van de Port plays tricks with the ethnographic
genre, but this vertiginous rollercoaster is not a hollow facade;
it is full of content. This study is one of the more theoretically
complex, and original contributions to Candombl´e and Bahia ever
written." -- Roger Sansi Roca, Universitat de Barcelona/Goldsmiths
University of London in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean
Anthropology
"Ecstatic Encounters is not the usual in-depth,
anthropologist-becomes-initiate type of study, and in this sense it
makes for a refreshing change. It constitutes more of a cultural
history drawn through a series of essays that tangentially explore
the theme of Candomblé in the public sphere. [=] the strength of
Ecstatic Encounters is not so much as a convincing ethnographic
detailing of other lives and worlds, but as a meditation on
representation as a form of world-making and the limits of human
meaning making." - Maya Mayblin, Anthropology of This Century
Journal
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