The Art of Fate Calculation : : Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng / / Stéphanie Homola.

From housewives to students and high-ranking officials, people from all social backgrounds in China and Taiwan visit fate calculation masters to learn about their destiny. How do clients assess the diviner’s skills? How does one become a fortune-teller? How is a person’s fate calculated? The Art of...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Asian Anthropologies ; 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (374 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t ILLUSTRATIONS --   |t FOREWORD --   |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --   |t INTRODUCTION --   |t 1 CLIENTS OF DIVINATORY SERVICES Societal Issues and Consultation Experiences in Taipei --   |t 2 DIVINATORY ARTS SPECIALISTS Historical Development, Claims, and Reforms in Taipei’s “World of Divination” --   |t 3 FATE CALCULATION TECHNIQUES Contemporary Reformulations of a Traditional Knowledge on the Individual and Their Environment --   |t 4 PROFESSIONAL PRACTITIONERS Institutional and Cultural Legitimacy of Professional Diviners in Beijing --   |t 5 AMATEUR PRACTITIONERS AND SHARED KNOWLEDGE Everyday Knowledge and Modes of Transmission in Kaifeng --   |t CONCLUSION Trust and Standardization --   |t APPENDIX 1 A Brief History of the Ziwei Doushu Method --   |t APPENDIX 2 Ziwei Doushu Schools in Taiwan --   |t APPENDIX 3 Correspondence Tables in the Ziwei Doushu Method --   |t GLOSSARY OF CHINESE TERMS --   |t REFERENCES --   |t INDEX 
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