M Van De Port
Biographic Data
| ID | 14513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Van De Port |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Van De Port |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DE PORT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3664-971X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes
Affect's Social Lives
Why is the talk about Yugoslavia still emotionally charged and situated in the registers of passion, pain, sentimental recollections, or nostalgia even 30 years after its violent dissolution? How is the sphere of the affective, sensory, and embodied fundamental to understanding the historical project of Yugoslavia and its afterlives? Social Lives of Affect: Post-Yugoslav Reflections addresses these questions and explores how the attempts to conce…
Chapter 3. Reading Bruno Latour in Bahia: Or, How to Approach The “Great, Blooming, Buzzing Confusion” of Life and Being Without Going Mad
The banquet of the gods is a mess
Como as imagens fazem você pensar sobre a religião? This question was send to me by Rodrigo Toniol, organizer of the Jornadas sobre Alternativas Religiosas na América Latina in Rio de Janeiro, and was to be at the heart of a public dialogue with my colleague Hugo José Suárez. The rather general formulation of the question could obviously lead us into a whole lot of different directions: how are one's thoughts provoked by saintly statues, byzantin…
Faking Spirit Possession: Creating ‘Epistemic Murk’ in Bahian Candomblé
Faking Spirit Possession: Creating ‘Epistemic Murk’ in Bahian Candomblé
I was driving Victor, Otávio and his boyfriend Jorge to a celebration of Candomblé in Alaketu, one of Salvador’s old and famous terreiros (temples). Four gays in a rental car, all dressed in immaculate white, as Candomblé ceremonies require. The initiative for the outing had been mine. As always, Victor had been hesitant to accompany me. He dislikes the ceremonies, with their long hours of just sitting, watching the initiates dance to the drummin…
Moonlight
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Os Presentes De Oxum: Sentidos Da Musealização No Terreiro Do Gantois
Este artigo discute como os aposentos de uma famosa sacerdotisa do candomblé foram transformados em um local patrimonializado. O Memorial de Mãe Menininha do Gantois mostra que o museu pode ser entendido como uma "linguagem" específica de status e prestígio. Esse lugar, portanto, permite refletir sobre o que acontece quando novos atores na esfera pública se apropriam e transformam essa linguagem. Embora as dimensões profanas da musealização sejam…
In Love with My Footage: Desirous Undercurrents in the Making of an Essay Film on Candomblé
What underlies the choices anthropologists make when opting for a pen or a camera, or for “the observational style” or “video experimentation”? In this essay, I look at anthropology as a practice of mediation. I take this practice to be driven by the desire to arrive at a full account of fieldwork experiences, and to be informed by the fantasmatic promises with which particular media have been endowed. You might think of the possibilities promise…
Epilogue: Religion, Lived Religion, and the “Authenticity” of Failure
The verification of ethnographic data: A response
Criatividade e tecnologias cósmicas nas religiões Afro-cubanas
uma longa e detalhada introdução, discutindo como esses editores se permitem discordar da literatura corrente sobre religiões afro-cubanas (e afro-brasileiras).Eles consideram que, com demasiada frequência, a pesquisa nesse campo começa por identificar misturas e influências
"Is there such a thing as representing "life as it is being lived
Chupar frutasinSalvador daBahia: A Case of Practice-Specific Alterities
In this article we interfere with the naturalization of 'eating' by comparing two modes of engaging with fruits inSalvador daBahia,Brazil. One of these iscomer, which translates as 'to eat'. The other ischupar, 'to suck'. Incomer, a piece of fruit crosses distinct bodily boundaries and gets swallowed; inchupar, juices spill over hands, while stones or fibres that have made it into a mouth are taken out again. Some fruits, like apples, compel a pe…
Bed and throne: The "Museumification" of the Living Quarters of a Candomblé Priestess
This article discusses the way in which the living quarters of a famous priestess from the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé were turned into a heritage site. The Memorial de Mãe Menininha do Gantois shows that the form of the museum might be understood as a particular "language" of status and prestige. The site therefore allows us to discuss what happens when new actors in the public sphere pick up, appropriate, and transform this language of "m…
Bruno Latour and the anthropology of the moderns: Bruno Latour and the Anthropology of the Moderns
International audience
Comentário
Comentário ao texto "Transnacionalización de las danzas aztecas y relocalización de las fronteras México / Estados Unidos" de Renée de la Torre e Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga
Candomblé em rosa, verde e preto. Recriando a herança religiosa afro-brasileira na esfera pública de Salvador, na Bahia
Candomblé em rosa, verde e preto. Recriando a herança religiosa afro-brasileira na esfera pública de Salvador, na Bahia
Resposta aos comentários
Resposta aos comentários
Genuinely made up: Camp, Baroque, and Other Denaturalizing Aesthetics in the Cultural Production of the Real
The link that Jean-Jacques Rousseau forged a long time ago between the 'real' and the 'natural' has proved to be indissoluble. Time and again, contemporary constructions of the real mobilize all that can be linked to nature. Inauthentic, by contrast, is that which is fabricated, made up, artificial, the all-too-evident result of human design. In Bahia, Brazil, the author encountered a completely different mode in the cultural production of the re…
Inhabitants of the Screen: Celebrity and the Production of Religious Authority in Bahian Candomblé
In Bahia, Brazil, the public articulation of religious authority comes to depend more and more on celebrity discourses. This article takes the Afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult Candomblé as an example to show how in media-saturated societies religious and media imaginaries become inextricably entangled. In their struggle to be publicly recognized as a proper ‘religion’, Candomblé priests ?nd themselves overcoming their media-shyness. Televisu…
(Not) Made by the human hand: Media consciousness and immediacy in the cultural production of the real
Taking its examples from the realm of popular religion and popular culture, this essay shows how sensations of im‐mediacy are sought and produced in a great number of fantasy scripts. Some of these scripts seek to undo media‐awareness: concealing or denying the involvement of the human hand they produce the sensation that one's imaginations are not human fabrications at all, but immanent to the world. Other scripts, however, flauntingly reveal th…
Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real
Oh! Bahia da magia, dos feitiços e da fé.Oh! Bahia of magic, fetishes
“Don’t Ask Questions, Just Observe!” Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomblé
When I got stuck in a traffic jam in Sâo Gonçalo do Retiro, a peripheral neighborhood in Salvador in which the terreiro (temple) called Ilê Axé Opô Afonja is situated, I began to realize that my assumptions about the upcoming event had been wrong. From what I had read in the announcement, the Semana Cultural da Herança Africana na Bahia (Cultural Week of the African Heritage in Bahia), was going to be yet another one of these rather boring meetin…
Body trouble
This articles explores the introduction of sensiotics into the study of African/Diaspora arts. It discusses the relevance of sensiotics transcends discussions on aesthetics and the arts per se. It highlights the aesthetic/sensuous dimensions of all world making. It asks the consequences of the argument presented by Henry Drewal on the relevance of sensiotics. In addition, the article argues that people cannot withdraw themselves into the ultimate…
Visualizing the sacred: Video technology, "televisual" style, and the religious imagination in Bahian candomblé
Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian spirit-possession cult, whose splendid performance of "African tradition" and "secrecy" has long prohibited the reproduction of religious activity by modern media technology. Authoritative voices within candomblé have explicitly stated that modern media technology is incongruous with authentic traditional religion, claiming that the body in ritual action is (and should remain) the only medium through which an unders…
Candomblé in pink, green and black. Re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian religious heritage in the public sphere of Salvador, Bahia
The article discusses the dispersion of candomblé imagery, practices and aesthetics in the public sphere of Salvador, Bahia. It shows that the spirit possession cult has become a trademark for the Bahian state and a major ‘symbol bank’ for groups as varied as the Bahian gay movement, environmental pressure groups and black activists. As candomblé enters ever new circuits of Bahia's representational economy, and finds itself dressed in ever new id…
Circling around the Really Real: Spirit Possession Ceremonies and the Search for Authenticity in Bahian Candomble
Many anthropologists studying spirit possession cults have commented that the most immediate experience of possession escapes our understanding. In Bahian candomblé, cultists have reached similar conclusions: while their religious discourse explains why possession happens, the phenomenon itself is considered to be hors discours—"locked-up" in the here and now of the experiencing body. This article discusses how the construction of possession as "…
Chupar frutasinSalvador daBahia: A Case of Practice-Specific Alterities
In this article we interfere with the naturalization of 'eating' by comparing two modes of engaging with fruits inSalvador daBahia,Brazil. One of these iscomer, which translates as 'to eat'. The other ischupar, 'to suck'. Incomer, a piece of fruit crosses distinct bodily boundaries and gets swallowed; inchupar, juices spill over hands, while stones or fibres that have made it into a mouth are taken out again. Some fruits, like apples, compel a pe…
It Takes a Serb to Know a Serb: Uncovering the roots of obstinate otherness in Serbia
In this article I discuss two domains of knowledge that my Serbian informants labelled as impenetrable to Western knowledge: carousing in Gypsy bars (a practice called lumpovanje) and Serbian history. 'This is something only Serbs can understand' is what my friends and informants would tell me over and over again. Uncovering the realms of lived experience that inform this sense of being definitely Other, I will explore the theoretical implication…
Bruno Latour and the anthropology of the moderns: Bruno Latour and the Anthropology of the Moderns
International audience
Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real
Oh! Bahia da magia, dos feitiços e da fé.Oh! Bahia of magic, fetishes
Bahian white: The Dispersion of Candomblé Imagery in the Public Sphere of Bahia
For most of its history, candomblé was a marginal and persecuted spirit possession cult. From the 1920s onward, however, the cult evolved into the “trademark” of Bahia, a state in northeastern Brazil. The color white—a spotless and impeccable white—has come to dominate the public face of the cult: evoking positive connotations such as cleanliness and purity, the color helped to portray candomblé as the splendid cultural heritage of the Bahian sta…
Genuinely made up: Camp, Baroque, and Other Denaturalizing Aesthetics in the Cultural Production of the Real
The link that Jean-Jacques Rousseau forged a long time ago between the 'real' and the 'natural' has proved to be indissoluble. Time and again, contemporary constructions of the real mobilize all that can be linked to nature. Inauthentic, by contrast, is that which is fabricated, made up, artificial, the all-too-evident result of human design. In Bahia, Brazil, the author encountered a completely different mode in the cultural production of the re…
The articulation of soul: Gypsy musicians and the Serbian Other
In his Moeurs et Coutumes des Tziganes (1936), the French ethnologist Martin Block notices thatwhen a Hungarian or Romanian feels sad, or when, on the contrary, he wants to celebrate, he needs Gypsy music to exteriorize the state of his soul. (Block 1936, p. 136)Block's conclusion that Gypsy musicians are in the business of articulating other people's 'soul' confronts us with an intriguing conundrum. Given the fact that in eastern Europe, group b…
In Love with My Footage: Desirous Undercurrents in the Making of an Essay Film on Candomblé
What underlies the choices anthropologists make when opting for a pen or a camera, or for “the observational style” or “video experimentation”? In this essay, I look at anthropology as a practice of mediation. I take this practice to be driven by the desire to arrive at a full account of fieldwork experiences, and to be informed by the fantasmatic promises with which particular media have been endowed. You might think of the possibilities promise…
The verification of ethnographic data: A response
Candomblé em rosa, verde e preto. Recriando a herança religiosa afro-brasileira na esfera pública de Salvador, na Bahia
Candomblé em rosa, verde e preto. Recriando a herança religiosa afro-brasileira na esfera pública de Salvador, na Bahia
Bed and throne: The "Museumification" of the Living Quarters of a Candomblé Priestess
This article discusses the way in which the living quarters of a famous priestess from the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé were turned into a heritage site. The Memorial de Mãe Menininha do Gantois shows that the form of the museum might be understood as a particular "language" of status and prestige. The site therefore allows us to discuss what happens when new actors in the public sphere pick up, appropriate, and transform this language of "m…
Moonlight
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Priests and Stars
This article discusses the inextricable entanglement of religious and media imaginar¬ies by pointing out how, in a thoroughly mediatized society such as Bahia (Brazil), the public articulation of religious authority comes to depend more and more on celebrity discourses. Candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult on which this article focuses, is an intriguing example of this trend. The cult has become the main “symbol bank” of the Bahia…
Visual studies of music and dance
The articulation of soul: Gypsy musicians and the Serbian Other
In his Moeurs et Coutumes des Tziganes (1936), the French ethnologist Martin Block notices thatwhen a Hungarian or Romanian feels sad, or when, on the contrary, he wants to celebrate, he needs Gypsy music to exteriorize the state of his soul. (Block 1936, p. 136)Block's conclusion that Gypsy musicians are in the business of articulating other people's 'soul' confronts us with an intriguing conundrum. Given the fact that in eastern Europe, group b…
It Takes a Serb to Know a Serb: Uncovering the roots of obstinate otherness in Serbia
In this article I discuss two domains of knowledge that my Serbian informants labelled as impenetrable to Western knowledge: carousing in Gypsy bars (a practice called lumpovanje) and Serbian history. 'This is something only Serbs can understand' is what my friends and informants would tell me over and over again. Uncovering the realms of lived experience that inform this sense of being definitely Other, I will explore the theoretical implication…
Priests and Stars
This article discusses the inextricable entanglement of religious and media imaginar¬ies by pointing out how, in a thoroughly mediatized society such as Bahia (Brazil), the public articulation of religious authority comes to depend more and more on celebrity discourses. Candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult on which this article focuses, is an intriguing example of this trend. The cult has become the main “symbol bank” of the Bahia…
Candomblé in pink, green and black. Re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian religious heritage in the public sphere of Salvador, Bahia
The article discusses the dispersion of candomblé imagery, practices and aesthetics in the public sphere of Salvador, Bahia. It shows that the spirit possession cult has become a trademark for the Bahian state and a major ‘symbol bank’ for groups as varied as the Bahian gay movement, environmental pressure groups and black activists. As candomblé enters ever new circuits of Bahia's representational economy, and finds itself dressed in ever new id…
Circling around the Really Real: Spirit Possession Ceremonies and the Search for Authenticity in Bahian Candomble
Many anthropologists studying spirit possession cults have commented that the most immediate experience of possession escapes our understanding. In Bahian candomblé, cultists have reached similar conclusions: while their religious discourse explains why possession happens, the phenomenon itself is considered to be hors discours—"locked-up" in the here and now of the experiencing body. This article discusses how the construction of possession as "…
Visualizing the sacred: Video technology, "televisual" style, and the religious imagination in Bahian candomblé
Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian spirit-possession cult, whose splendid performance of "African tradition" and "secrecy" has long prohibited the reproduction of religious activity by modern media technology. Authoritative voices within candomblé have explicitly stated that modern media technology is incongruous with authentic traditional religion, claiming that the body in ritual action is (and should remain) the only medium through which an unders…
Bahian white: The Dispersion of Candomblé Imagery in the Public Sphere of Bahia
For most of its history, candomblé was a marginal and persecuted spirit possession cult. From the 1920s onward, however, the cult evolved into the “trademark” of Bahia, a state in northeastern Brazil. The color white—a spotless and impeccable white—has come to dominate the public face of the cult: evoking positive connotations such as cleanliness and purity, the color helped to portray candomblé as the splendid cultural heritage of the Bahian sta…
“Don’t Ask Questions, Just Observe!” Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomblé
When I got stuck in a traffic jam in Sâo Gonçalo do Retiro, a peripheral neighborhood in Salvador in which the terreiro (temple) called Ilê Axé Opô Afonja is situated, I began to realize that my assumptions about the upcoming event had been wrong. From what I had read in the announcement, the Semana Cultural da Herança Africana na Bahia (Cultural Week of the African Heritage in Bahia), was going to be yet another one of these rather boring meetin…
Body trouble
This articles explores the introduction of sensiotics into the study of African/Diaspora arts. It discusses the relevance of sensiotics transcends discussions on aesthetics and the arts per se. It highlights the aesthetic/sensuous dimensions of all world making. It asks the consequences of the argument presented by Henry Drewal on the relevance of sensiotics. In addition, the article argues that people cannot withdraw themselves into the ultimate…
Inhabitants of the Screen: Celebrity and the Production of Religious Authority in Bahian Candomblé
In Bahia, Brazil, the public articulation of religious authority comes to depend more and more on celebrity discourses. This article takes the Afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult Candomblé as an example to show how in media-saturated societies religious and media imaginaries become inextricably entangled. In their struggle to be publicly recognized as a proper ‘religion’, Candomblé priests ?nd themselves overcoming their media-shyness. Televisu…
(Not) Made by the human hand: Media consciousness and immediacy in the cultural production of the real
Taking its examples from the realm of popular religion and popular culture, this essay shows how sensations of im‐mediacy are sought and produced in a great number of fantasy scripts. Some of these scripts seek to undo media‐awareness: concealing or denying the involvement of the human hand they produce the sensation that one's imaginations are not human fabrications at all, but immanent to the world. Other scripts, however, flauntingly reveal th…
Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the Quest for the Really Real
Oh! Bahia da magia, dos feitiços e da fé.Oh! Bahia of magic, fetishes
Comentário
Comentário ao texto "Transnacionalización de las danzas aztecas y relocalización de las fronteras México / Estados Unidos" de Renée de la Torre e Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga
Candomblé em rosa, verde e preto. Recriando a herança religiosa afro-brasileira na esfera pública de Salvador, na Bahia
Candomblé em rosa, verde e preto. Recriando a herança religiosa afro-brasileira na esfera pública de Salvador, na Bahia
Resposta aos comentários
Resposta aos comentários
Genuinely made up: Camp, Baroque, and Other Denaturalizing Aesthetics in the Cultural Production of the Real
The link that Jean-Jacques Rousseau forged a long time ago between the 'real' and the 'natural' has proved to be indissoluble. Time and again, contemporary constructions of the real mobilize all that can be linked to nature. Inauthentic, by contrast, is that which is fabricated, made up, artificial, the all-too-evident result of human design. In Bahia, Brazil, the author encountered a completely different mode in the cultural production of the re…
Bed and throne: The "Museumification" of the Living Quarters of a Candomblé Priestess
This article discusses the way in which the living quarters of a famous priestess from the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé were turned into a heritage site. The Memorial de Mãe Menininha do Gantois shows that the form of the museum might be understood as a particular "language" of status and prestige. The site therefore allows us to discuss what happens when new actors in the public sphere pick up, appropriate, and transform this language of "m…
Bruno Latour and the anthropology of the moderns: Bruno Latour and the Anthropology of the Moderns
International audience
"Is there such a thing as representing "life as it is being lived
Chupar frutasinSalvador daBahia: A Case of Practice-Specific Alterities
In this article we interfere with the naturalization of 'eating' by comparing two modes of engaging with fruits inSalvador daBahia,Brazil. One of these iscomer, which translates as 'to eat'. The other ischupar, 'to suck'. Incomer, a piece of fruit crosses distinct bodily boundaries and gets swallowed; inchupar, juices spill over hands, while stones or fibres that have made it into a mouth are taken out again. Some fruits, like apples, compel a pe…
Epilogue: Religion, Lived Religion, and the “Authenticity” of Failure
The verification of ethnographic data: A response
Criatividade e tecnologias cósmicas nas religiões Afro-cubanas
uma longa e detalhada introdução, discutindo como esses editores se permitem discordar da literatura corrente sobre religiões afro-cubanas (e afro-brasileiras).Eles consideram que, com demasiada frequência, a pesquisa nesse campo começa por identificar misturas e influências
In Love with My Footage: Desirous Undercurrents in the Making of an Essay Film on Candomblé
What underlies the choices anthropologists make when opting for a pen or a camera, or for “the observational style” or “video experimentation”? In this essay, I look at anthropology as a practice of mediation. I take this practice to be driven by the desire to arrive at a full account of fieldwork experiences, and to be informed by the fantasmatic promises with which particular media have been endowed. You might think of the possibilities promise…
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