Truth in motion
Subtitle: the recursive anthropology of Cuban divination
By: Martin Holbraad
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780226349206; 9780226349213
Subjects: Religion; Ifa (Religion); Divination
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the question of truth in the historiography and ethnography of Ifá divination; title: Truth as an ethnographic object; title: Ifá in West Africa and the prestige of truth; title: Afro-American religion and the politics of its representation; title: Truth in anthropology: from nature and culture to recursive analysis; title: Evolutionism, "diffusionism," constructivism: the fall of truth; title: Toward a recursive analysis of truth; title: Truth beyond doubt: the alterity of divination; title: Divination in anthropology; title: Evans-Pritchard on oracles; title: Boyer on divination, causal indices, and truth; title: Divination and indubitability; title: Desiderata for an analysis of divinatory truth; title: Living Ifá: the matter of truth; title: True encounters; title: Divinatory regulation: Javier's initiatory career; title: Divination and the path of initiation; title: The matrix of initiation and the propulsion of paths; title: Living Ifá; title: Speaking Ifá and the economy of learning secrets; title: Mythical transcendence and ritual elicitation: the cosmo-praxis of Ifá divination; title: The problem with the problem of transcendence; title: Myth and transcendence; title: Ritual and immanence; title: The cosmological problem of divination; title: The liturgy of Ifá divination; title: The ontology of motion: power, powder and vertical transformation; title: Ontological non sequiturs; title: Motile practice: a choreography of nuts; title: Motile discourse: talking of paths; title: Motile cosmology: aché in divination; title: An interlude on the analysis of motility, or, the power of powder; title: Motile ontology: potential relations and the direction of motion; title: Divinatory metamorphosis: symbolism, interpretation, and the motility of meaning; title: The problem of symbolism and the motility of meaning; title: Interrogating orula; title: "Speaking the signo, "interpreting the paths"; title: Motile meanings in divination; title: The event of truth: coincidence, revelation, bewilderment; title: Coincidence, paths, and the event of truth (or bewilderment); title: Motile truth, representation and their mutual eclipse; title: Skepticism and misunderstanding; title: Definition and obligation: the truth of the oracles; title: No lies, no mistakes; title: Divination and definition; title: Divination and obligation; title: Initiation as ontological transformation; title: Equivocations; title: Conclusion: anthropological truth; title: Divination and anthropology; title: Ontography as antidivination; title: Epilogue: on humility; title: Appendix A: the naming and ranking of divinatory configurations; title: Appendix B: "papers of Ifá": an example.