Cosmic Coherence

A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

By:

William Matthews

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Hardback

Series:

Asian Anthropologies

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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 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.

Author Biography:

William Matthews is Fellow in the Anthropology of China at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of various scholarly articles and book chapters covering the topics of anthropology and Chinese studies.

Release date Australia

November 1st, 2021

Author

William Matthews

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

200

Series

Asian Anthropologies

ISBN-13

9781800732681

Product ID

34852048

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