{"product_id":"the-taste-of-blood-spirit-possession-in-brazilian-candomble-paperback-softback-9780812213416","title":"The Taste of Blood; Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812213416","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Taste of Blood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJim Wafer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812213416\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 May 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.372 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An excellent story, rich in ethnographic material, untraditional in form, courageous in personal revelations, and with definite qualities in the attempts to guide the reader through insights, recognitions, and increasing understanding, without hiding the researcher's own confusion and doubts. It gives us more than a slight glance into the fascinating, earthly, puzzling, and still too little known world of Brazilian Candomble.\"-\u003ci\u003eEthnos\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Well written and rich in ethnographic detail, the book makes an engaging story with sometimes touching accounts of personal experiences with fellow initiates who have \"tasted the blood\" of a religion that traces its roots to Africa and Brazilian folk traditions.\"-Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists \u003ci\u003eNewsletter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A narrative full of almost novelistic devices, attempting to evoke the full reality of this complex, unknown, exciting and somewhat frightening way, or concept, of life.\"-\u003ci\u003eBritish Bulletin of Publications\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Succeeds as an innovative ethnography. . . . Intriguing and scintillating . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Taste of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly explores both Condomble and the representations of ethnographic research.\"-\u003ci\u003eFolklore Forum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter the fascinating world of the Condomble regions of Brazil, where interaction between spirits and human is considered an everyday occurrence. Jim Wafer uncovers the social life, rituals, folklore, and engaging personalities of the villagers of Jacari, among whom trances, sorcery, and spirit possession demonstrate the coexistence of different kinds of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis ethnography is intriguing not only because of the originality of its approach to the more enigmatic aspects of another culture but also because it uses insights gained from participation in that culture to reflect on the paradoxes inherent in the writer's own culture, and in the human condition in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eExu: The Lips of Pomba-Gira, Padilha's Vow, Corquisa . . . Caboclo: Order and Progress, Of Keys, Villages . . .Orix.: Child Spirits, The Throne, Tempo . . . Egum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555677925656,"sku":"9780812213416","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-taste-of-blood-spirit-possession-in-brazilian-candomble-paperback-softback-9780812213416","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}