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Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination

Martin Holbraad

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Description:Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barriosof 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 not so much to be represented, but transformed. Central to this position is Holbraad’s description of Ifá truth as a motile event that is forged in the ritual of divination, rather than a static state simply needing to be unveiled. Ifá truth, Holbraad shows, is to be conceived as something that moves, literally, and is transformed when different trajectories of meaning are made to collide. Going further, he brings this ethnographic analysis to bear on the discipline of anthropology itself, recasting conflicts of truth and the problem of otherness in anthropological inquiry as rooted not in epistemological differences but ontological ones—truth, he argues, does not simply appear in different forms but exists in them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination. To get started finding Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barriosof 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 not so much to be represented, but transformed. Central to this position is Holbraad’s description of Ifá truth as a motile event that is forged in the ritual of divination, rather than a static state simply needing to be unveiled. Ifá truth, Holbraad shows, is to be conceived as something that moves, literally, and is transformed when different trajectories of meaning are made to collide. Going further, he brings this ethnographic analysis to bear on the discipline of anthropology itself, recasting conflicts of truth and the problem of otherness in anthropological inquiry as rooted not in epistemological differences but ontological ones—truth, he argues, does not simply appear in different forms but exists in them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination. To get started finding Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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