The art of fate calculation
practicing divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng
by Stéphanie Homola, Dominic Horsfall & Michael Lackner
- First published:
- 21st century
- Languages: English, French
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 — -
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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles and Prophecy, oracles, and revelation.
Controlled discovery queries from austrian-library-network, harvard, and swisscovery matched “divination” and “Wahrsagung”. Retained metadata contains “Divination” in the subtitle, “Divination” in the subject metadata, and “Divination” in the edition subtitle.
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- “Divination”· in subject
- “Divination”· in edition subtitle
Retained metadata contains “Oracles” in the subject metadata.
- “Oracles”· in subject
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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practicing divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng First published Asian anthropologies; Illustrationen, Tabellen; Includes bibliographical references and index; swisscovery holding institutions: 41SLSP_BCUFR, 41SLSP_UGE, 41SLSP_UZB; volume 14; xiv, 304 Seiten | 2023 | Berghahn | English, French |
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- Austrian control number
- AC16763016
- Austrian Library Network
- 99147185254803331
- Harvard
- 99156772733003941
- swisscovery
- 991171141814705501
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