Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of Ifá, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, Truth in Motion reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly different, and highly respected, model. Acutely focusing on Ifá, Martin Holbraad takes the reader inside consultations, initiations, and lively public debates to show how Ifá practitioners see truth as something to be not so much represented, as transformed. Bringing his findings to bear on the discipline of anthropology itself, he recasts the very idea of truth as a matter not only of epistemological divergence but also of ontological difference—the question of truth, he argues, is not simply about how things may appear differently to people, but also about the different ways of imagining what those things are. By delving so deeply into Ifá practices, Truth in Motion offers cogent new ways of thinking about otherness and how anthropology can navigate it.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2012Print ISBN
9780226349213
9780226349206
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9780226349220
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: The Question of Truth in the Historiography and Ethnography of Ifa Divination
- CHAPTER 1. Truth in Anthropology: From Nature and Culture to Recursive Analysis
- CHAPTER 2. Truth Beyond Doubt: The Alterity of Divination
- CHAPTER 3. Living Ifa: The Matter of Truth
- CHAPTER 4. Mythical Transcendence and Ritual Elicitation: The Cosmo-Praxis of Ifa Divination
- CHAPTER 5. The Ontology of Motion: Power, Powder, and Vertical Transformation
- CHAPTER 6. Divinatory Metamorphosis: Symbolism, Interpretation, and the Motility of Meaning
- CHAPTER 7. The Event of Truth: Coincidence, Revelation, Bewilderment
- CHAPTER 8. Definition and Obligation: The Truth of the Oracles
- Conclusion: Anthropological Truth
- Epilogue: On Humility
- Appendix A: The Naming and Ranking of Divinatory Configurations
- Appendix B: “Papers of Ifa”: An Example
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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