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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Social and Political Status of Divination in China
- Chapter 2. The Practice of Divination and Diviners
- Chapter 3. Typical Customers of Divination
- Chapter 4. The Moral Discourses of Divination
- Chapter 5. Divination as an Aspect of ‘Traditional Culture’
- Chapter 6. Divination as Counselling
- Chapter 7. The Professionalization of Divination through Associations
- Conclusion
- References
- Index