Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas [289]-308) e índice.

Introduction: the question of truth in the historiography and ethnography of Ifá divination -- Truth as an ethnographic object -- Ifá in West Africa and the prestige of truth -- Afro-American religion and the politics of its representation -- Truth in anthropology: from nature and culture to recursive analysis -- Evolutionism, "diffusionism," constructivism: the fall of truth -- Toward a recursive analysis of truth -- Truth beyond doubt: the alterity of divination -- Divination in anthropology -- Evans-Pritchard on oracles -- Boyer on divination, causal indices, and truth -- Divination and indubitability -- Desiderata for an analysis of divinatory truth -- Living Ifá: the matter of truth -- True encounters -- Divinatory regulation: Javier's initiatory career -- Divination and the path of initiation -- The matrix of initiation and the propulsion of paths -- Living Ifá -- Speaking Ifá and the economy of learning -- Secrets -- Mythical transcendence and ritual elicitation: the cosmo-praxis of Ifá divination -- The problem with the problem of transcendence -- Myth and transcendence -- Ritual and immanence -- The cosmological problem of divination -- The liturgy of Ifá divination -- The ontology of motion: power, powder and vertical transformation -- Ontological non sequiturs -- Motile practice: a choreography of nuts -- Motile discourse: talking of paths -- Motile cosmology: aché in divination -- An interlude on the analysis of motility, or, the power of powder -- Motile ontology: potential relations and the direction of motion -- Divinatory metamorphosis: symbolism, interpretation, and the motility of meaning -- The problem of symbolism and the motility of meaning -- Interrogating orula -- "Speaking the signo, "interpreting the paths" -- Motile meanings in divination -- The event of truth: coincidence, revelation, bewilderment -- Coincidence, paths, and the event of truth (or bewilderment) -- Motile truth, representation and their mutual eclipse -- Skepticism and misunderstanding -- Definition and obligation: the truth of the oracles -- No lies, no mistakes -- Divination and definition -- Divination and obligation -- Initiation as ontological transformation -- Equivocations -- Conclusion: anthropological truth -- Divination and anthropology -- Ontography as antidivination -- Epilogue: on humility -- Appendix A: the naming and ranking of divinatory configurations -- Appendix B: "papers of Ifá": an example.