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Holbraad, Martin

 
9780226349213: Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination
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ISBN 10: 0226349217 ISBN 13: 9780226349213
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2012

Sinopsis

Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of 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 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 difference—the 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 Ifá practices, Truth in Motion offers cogent new ways of thinking about otherness and how anthropology can navigate it.

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Acerca del autor

Martin Holbraad teaches social anthropology at University College London. He is coeditor of Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically and Technologies of the Imagination.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226349217
ISBN 13 
9780226349213
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
344
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