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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Homola, Stéphanie, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Art of Fate Calculation : Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng / Stéphanie Homola. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (374 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Asian Anthropologies ; 14 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 CLIENTS OF DIVINATORY SERVICES Societal Issues and Consultation Experiences in Taipei -- 2 DIVINATORY ARTS SPECIALISTS Historical Development, Claims, and Reforms in Taipei’s “World of Divination” -- 3 FATE CALCULATION TECHNIQUES Contemporary Reformulations of a Traditional Knowledge on the Individual and Their Environment -- 4 PROFESSIONAL PRACTITIONERS Institutional and Cultural Legitimacy of Professional Diviners in Beijing -- 5 AMATEUR PRACTITIONERS AND SHARED KNOWLEDGE Everyday Knowledge and Modes of Transmission in Kaifeng -- CONCLUSION Trust and Standardization -- APPENDIX 1 A Brief History of the Ziwei Doushu Method -- APPENDIX 2 Ziwei Doushu Schools in Taiwan -- APPENDIX 3 Correspondence Tables in the Ziwei Doushu Method -- GLOSSARY OF CHINESE TERMS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 Fate Calculation explores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of “superstition” but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Divination China Case studies. Divination Taiwan Case studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Anthropology (General), Anthropology of Religion, Sociology. Lackner, Michael, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800738133 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800738133 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800738133/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 CLIENTS OF DIVINATORY SERVICES Societal Issues and Consultation Experiences in Taipei -- 2 DIVINATORY ARTS SPECIALISTS Historical Development, Claims, and Reforms in Taipei’s “World of Divination” -- 3 FATE CALCULATION TECHNIQUES Contemporary Reformulations of a Traditional Knowledge on the Individual and Their Environment -- 4 PROFESSIONAL PRACTITIONERS Institutional and Cultural Legitimacy of Professional Diviners in Beijing -- 5 AMATEUR PRACTITIONERS AND SHARED KNOWLEDGE Everyday Knowledge and Modes of Transmission in Kaifeng -- CONCLUSION Trust and Standardization -- APPENDIX 1 A Brief History of the Ziwei Doushu Method -- APPENDIX 2 Ziwei Doushu Schools in Taiwan -- APPENDIX 3 Correspondence Tables in the Ziwei Doushu Method -- GLOSSARY OF CHINESE TERMS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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