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Cosmic Coherence
A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination
Udgivet af Berghahn Books
ISBN
9781800732681
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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 the cosmos in terms o…
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Forfatter
William Matthews, William Matthews Matthews
Forlag
Berghahn Books
Kategori
Social- & Kulturantropologi
ISBN-13
9781800732681
EAN
9781800732681
Format
Indbundet
Sprog
Engelsk
sider
222
Undertitel
- A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination
Produktbeskrivelse
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 the cosmos in terms of a single substance, qi, unfolding across scales of increasing complexity to create natural phenomena and human experience. Combined with an understanding of human cognition, it shows how this conception of scale offers a new way for anthropologists and other social scientists to think about cosmology, comparison and cultural difference.
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