Fate Calculation Experts : : Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China / / Geng Li.
Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal “superstition”, the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China. Fate Calculation Experts explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, scienc...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Asian Anthropologies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (158 p.) |
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