{"product_id":"cosmic-coherence-william-matthews-9781800732681","title":"Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eYijing\u003c\/em\u003e divination in China. Diviners explain the cosmos in terms of a single substance, \u003cem\u003eqi\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Matthews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800732686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800732681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"William Matthews","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43996021457151,"sku":"9781800732681","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c1152c1-644d-4072-a2dd-c271a097f2c4.jpg?v=1683339238","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cosmic-coherence-william-matthews-9781800732681","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}