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"Truth in motion" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Introduction: the question of truth in the historiography and ethnography of Ifá divination
• 2- Truth as an ethnographic object
• 3- Ifá in West Africa and the prestige of truth
• 4- Afro-American religion and the politics of its representation
• 5- Truth in anthropology: from nature and culture to recursive analysis
• 6- Evolutionism, "diffusionism," constructivism: the fall of truth
• 7- Toward a recursive analysis of truth
• 8- Truth beyond doubt: the alterity of divination
• 9- Divination in anthropology
• 10- Evans-Pritchard on oracles
• 11- Boyer on divination, causal indices, and truth
• 12- Divination and indubitability
• 13- Desiderata for an analysis of divinatory truth
• 14- Living Ifá: the matter of truth
• 15- True encounters
• 16- Divinatory regulation: Javier's initiatory career
• 17- Divination and the path of initiation
• 18- The matrix of initiation and the propulsion of paths
• 19- Living Ifá
• 20- Speaking Ifá and the economy of learning secrets
• 21- Mythical transcendence and ritual elicitation: the cosmo-praxis of Ifá divination
• 22- The problem with the problem of transcendence
• 23- Myth and transcendence
• 24- Ritual and immanence
• 25- The cosmological problem of divination
• 26- The liturgy of Ifá divination
• 27- The ontology of motion: power, powder and vertical transformation
• 28- Ontological non sequiturs
• 29- Motile practice: a choreography of nuts
• 30- Motile discourse: talking of paths
• 31- Motile cosmology: aché in divination
• 32- An interlude on the analysis of motility, or, the power of powder
• 33- Motile ontology: potential relations and the direction of motion
• 34- Divinatory metamorphosis: symbolism, interpretation, and the motility of meaning
• 35- The problem of symbolism and the motility of meaning
• 36- Interrogating orula
• 37- "Speaking the signo, "interpreting the paths"
• 38- Motile meanings in divination
• 39- The event of truth: coincidence, revelation, bewilderment
• 40- Coincidence, paths, and the event of truth (or bewilderment)
• 41- Motile truth, representation and their mutual eclipse
• 42- Skepticism and misunderstanding
• 43- Definition and obligation: the truth of the oracles
• 44- No lies, no mistakes
• 45- Divination and definition
• 46- Divination and obligation
• 47- Initiation as ontological transformation
• 48- Equivocations
• 49- Conclusion: anthropological truth
• 50- Divination and anthropology
• 51- Ontography as antidivination
• 52- Epilogue: on humility
• 53- Appendix A: the naming and ranking of divinatory configurations
• 54- Appendix B: "papers of Ifá": an example.

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