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

The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781800738126)

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

The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng

$145.00
The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng by Homola, Stéphanie

The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng

$145.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: St駱hanie Homola
ISBN-10: 1800738129
ISBN-13: 9781800738126
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2023
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d

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By St駱hanie Homola
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St駱hanie Homola is Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the French Research Institute for Eastern Asia (IFRAE). She was previously Assistant Professor for Ethnology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Director of the Elite Master's Program "Standards of Decision-Making across Cultures".

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