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Truth in Motion (Paperback)
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Truth in Motion (Paperback)
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Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana
among practitioners of Ifa, 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 Ifa, Martin Holbraad
takes the reader inside consultations, initiations, and lively
public debates to show how Ifa practitioners see truth as something
not so much to be represented, but transformed. Central to this
position is Holbraad's description of Ifa truth as a motile event
that is forged in the ritual of divination, rather than a static
state simply needing to be unveiled. Ifa 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.
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