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1 Pai Ro is a priest of Candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion I have been studying since 2001. In his temple, African Orixá spirits are worshipped, as well as the indigenous spirits called Caboclos.
2 This theme is elaborated in my essay film “The Possibility of Spirits” (2017).
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Mattijs van de Port
Mattijs van de Port is a visual anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam and the VU University. Since 2001 he conducts research in Bahia (Brazil) on Candomblé, exploring a baroque articulation of his research findings in writing and film. E-mail: [email protected]