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Ecstatic encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real /

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...

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Main Author: Port, Mattijs van de
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Candomblé (Religion) > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Bahia (Brazil : State) > Religious life and customs.
Candomblé > Brésil > Bahia (État)
Bahia (Brésil : État) > Vie religieuse.
Humanities.
Religion and beliefs.
Aspects of religion (non-Christian)
Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Candomblé (Religion)
Brazil > Bahia (State)
Candomblé
Bahia
Anthropology
Anthropologie
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Electronic book.
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Call Number: BL2592.C35 P67 2011eb
 
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