Chinese Mathematical Astrology
Chinese Mathematical Astrology

Author: Ho Peng Yoke

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 113443068X

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Though there are a number of well-written works on Chinese divination, there are none that deal with the three sophisticated devices that were employed by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau in the eleventh century and for hundreds of years thereafter. Chinese experts applied the methods associated with these devices to both weather forecasting and to the interpretation of human affairs. Hidden by a veil of secrecy, these methods have always been relatively little known other than by their names. The first work in any language to explore these three methods, known as sanshi (three cosmic boards), this book sheds light on a topic which has been shrouded in mystery for centuries, having been kept secret for many years by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau.

Fate Calculation Experts
Fate Calculation Experts

Author: Geng Li

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-03-10

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1785339958

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Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal “superstition”, the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China. Fate Calculation Experts explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality. As well as associating with modern knowledge production systems, diviners build a positive social image for their occupation via claims to moral authority and appeals to “tradition”. Beyond matters of image management, diviners’ efforts towards legitimation also figure in the social relationships and fundamental cultural values they develop in their practice.

Temple Tracks
Temple Tracks

Author: Vineeta Sinha

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2023-08-11

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1805390171

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The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion. In Malaysia and Singapore, evidence of religion-making and railway-building from a colonial past is visible in multiple modes and media as memories, recollections and ‘traces’.

Tides of Empire
Tides of Empire

Author: Courtney Work

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1789207738

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At the forested edge of Cambodia’s development frontier, the infrastructures of global development engulf the land and existing social practices like an incoming tide. Cambodia’s distinctive history of imperial surge and rupture makes it easier to see the remains of earlier tides, which are embedded in the physical landscape, and also floating about in the solidifying boundaries of religious, economic, and political classifications. Using stories from the hybrid population of settler-farmers, loggers, and soldiers, all cutting new social realities from the water and the land, this book illuminates the contradictions and continuities in what the author suggests is the final tide of empire.

Cosmic Coherence
Cosmic Coherence

Author: William Matthews

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1800732694

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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.

Calibrated Engagement
Calibrated Engagement

Author: Stéphen Huard

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1805396781

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For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how politics is enacted at distance with the state. Calibrated Engagement weaves together ethnography and history to chronicle the transformation of rural politics in Anya, the dry lands of central Myanmar. The book presents situations as varied as local elections, inheritance transmissions, land conflicts and ceremonies, to show that politics is about how people calibrate the way they engage with each other.

Religion and the Morality of the Market
Religion and the Morality of the Market

Author: Daromir Rudnyckyj

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-30

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1107186056

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This book focuses on how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions.

The Yijing: a Guide
The Yijing: a Guide

Author: Joseph A. Adler

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0190072458

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"This book is a concise introduction to the Scripture of Change, or Yijing (formerly spelled I Ching), for general readers, practitioners of divination, students, and non-specialist scholars. Sometimes called the Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, this ancient Chinese text, with roots going back about three thousand years, has traditionally been considered the most profound of the Chinese "classics." Originally a manual of divination, in the late 1st millennium BCE it accumulated appendices, traditionally attributed to Confucius, that transformed it into a uniquely Chinese expression of wisdom. Through the centuries it has inspired countless commentaries, mostly in China but also throughout East Asia. Since the 20th century it has gained global popularity for both its use in divination and its contribution to the world's wisdom literature"--

Visions of Marriage
Visions of Marriage

Author: Hsiao-Chiao Chiu

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2023-07-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1800738897

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Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. While theories of modernity often treat marriage as an index of social change, without adequate attention to its transformative capacities generated through personal and familial agency, this volume provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.

Stories from an Ancient Land
Stories from an Ancient Land

Author: Magnus Fiskesjö

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-08-13

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1789208882

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