Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination

by Martin Holbraad

Book Overview

Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of If , 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 If , Martin Holbraad takes the reader inside consultations, initiations, and lively public debates to show how If practitioners see truth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226349217
• ISBN13: 9780226349213
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"