Martin Holbraad: 2 books
Truth in Motion
The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
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...
The Ontological Turn
An Anthropological Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first...