Ecstatic encounters : Bahian Candomblé and the quest for the really real / Mattijs van de Port.

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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