Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

by William Matthews

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1800732686

ISBN13:9781800732681

Release Date:November 2021

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Length:200 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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