Truth in Motion
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Truth in Motion

The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination

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Truth in Motion

The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: The Question of Truth in the Historiography and Ethnography of Ifa Divination
  9. CHAPTER 1. Truth in Anthropology: From Nature and Culture to Recursive Analysis
  10. CHAPTER 2. Truth Beyond Doubt: The Alterity of Divination
  11. CHAPTER 3. Living Ifa: The Matter of Truth
  12. CHAPTER 4. Mythical Transcendence and Ritual Elicitation: The Cosmo-Praxis of Ifa Divination
  13. CHAPTER 5. The Ontology of Motion: Power, Powder, and Vertical Transformation
  14. CHAPTER 6. Divinatory Metamorphosis: Symbolism, Interpretation, and the Motility of Meaning
  15. CHAPTER 7. The Event of Truth: Coincidence, Revelation, Bewilderment
  16. CHAPTER 8. Definition and Obligation: The Truth of the Oracles
  17. Conclusion: Anthropological Truth
  18. Epilogue: On Humility
  19. Appendix A: The Naming and Ranking of Divinatory Configurations
  20. Appendix B: “Papers of Ifa”: An Example
  21. Notes
  22. Works Cited
  23. Index