Truth in Motion - The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of Ifa! a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination! this title reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly different! and highly respected! model. Zusammenfassung Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of Ifa! a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination! this title reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly different! and highly respected! model.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Holbraad, Holbraad Martin
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2012
• EAN: 9780226349206
• ISBN: 978-0-226-34920-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Cuba, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal