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Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

By William Matthews

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781800732698, 2021028786, 2021028787, 9781800732681, 1800732694
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
581 kB (595437 bytes)
Pages
200\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2022-10-23 02:18:47

Description

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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