Truth in Motion
The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination
Martin Holbraad
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Truth in Motion
The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination
Martin Holbraad
Ă propos de ce livre
Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of IfĂĄ, 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 IfĂĄ, Martin Holbraad takes the reader inside consultations, initiations, and lively public debates to show how IfĂĄ 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 differenceâthe 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 IfĂĄ practices, Truth in Motion offers cogent new ways of thinking about otherness and how anthropology can navigate it.