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Joana Bahia

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The Romanticism of the Oyá: Feelings, Bodies, Memories, and the Multiple Space-Times of the Medium

Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology 2026 Joana Bahia

Abstract Subjective processes of change, dreams, dance, theater representations, translations, and memories of local and global heritage—all of these things are a kind of grammar that constitutes parts of the experiences of mediumship practiced in candomblé in Germany. I have observed these practices in my fieldwork since 2009. New forms of sacred agency in bodily practices, the different...