Truth in motion : the recursive anthropology of Cuban divination /
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| Author / Creator: | Holbraad, Martin. |
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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
