Cosmic Coherence : : A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination / / William Matthews.
Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world – theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China. Diviners explain t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian Anthropologies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- NOTES ON TEXT
- INTRODUCTION Getting Our Ontological Assumptions Right
- 1 DEEP ONTOLOGY A Fishy Business
- 2 DIVINING IN A HOMOLOGICAL COSMOS
- 3 FIGURATIVE THOUGHT FOR A COHERENT COSMOLOGY
- 4 COSMOLOGICAL CHANGE Historical Homologism and ‘Chinese Thought’
- 5 SCALE, COGNITION AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
- CONCLUSION Cosmic Coherence and Correlative Comparison
- APPENDIX The Content of the Yijing
- REFERENCES
- INDEX