Truth in motion : the recursive anthropology of Cuban divination /

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Author / Creator:Holbraad, Martin.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Description:xxiii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8846497
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ISBN:9780226349206 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9780226349213 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0226349209 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0226349217 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 |a Introduction: the question of truth in the historiography and ethnography of Ifá divination -- Truth as an ethnographic object -- Ifá in West Africa and the prestige of truth -- Afro-American religion and the politics of its representation -- Truth in anthropology: from nature and culture to recursive analysis -- Evolutionism, "diffusionism," constructivism: the fall of truth -- Toward a recursive analysis of truth -- Truth beyond doubt: the alterity of divination -- Divination in anthropology -- Evans-Pritchard on oracles -- Boyer on divination, causal indices, and truth -- Divination and indubitability -- Desiderata for an analysis of divinatory truth -- Living Ifá: the matter of truth -- True encounters -- Divinatory regulation: Javier's initiatory career -- Divination and the path of initiation -- The matrix of initiation and the propulsion of paths -- Living Ifá -- Speaking Ifá and the economy of learning secrets -- Mythical transcendence and ritual elicitation: the cosmo-praxis of Ifá divination -- The problem with the problem of transcendence -- Myth and transcendence -- Ritual and immanence -- The cosmological problem of divination -- The liturgy of Ifá divination -- The ontology of motion: power, powder and vertical transformation -- Ontological non sequiturs -- Motile practice: a choreography of nuts -- Motile discourse: talking of paths -- Motile cosmology: aché in divination -- An interlude on the analysis of motility, or, the power of powder -- Motile ontology: potential relations and the direction of motion -- Divinatory metamorphosis: symbolism, interpretation, and the motility of meaning -- The problem of symbolism and the motility of meaning -- Interrogating orula -- "Speaking the signo, "interpreting the paths" -- Motile meanings in divination -- The event of truth: coincidence, revelation, bewilderment -- Coincidence, paths, and the event of truth (or bewilderment) -- Motile truth, representation and their mutual eclipse -- Skepticism and misunderstanding -- Definition and obligation: the truth of the oracles -- No lies, no mistakes -- Divination and definition -- Divination and obligation -- Initiation as ontological transformation -- Equivocations -- Conclusion: anthropological truth -- Divination and anthropology -- Ontography as antidivination -- Epilogue: on humility -- Appendix A: the naming and ranking of divinatory configurations -- Appendix B: "papers of Ifá": an example. 
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