TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthews,William
TI  - Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination 
T2  - Asian Anthropologies
SN  - 9781800732681
AV  - B127.C68 
U1  - 113 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Cognition and culture
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Cosmology, Chinese
KW  - Divination
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General), Sociology, Cultural Studies (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; NOTES ON TEXT --; INTRODUCTION Getting Our Ontological Assumptions Right --; 1 DEEP ONTOLOGY A Fishy Business --; 2 DIVINING IN A HOMOLOGICAL COSMOS --; 3 FIGURATIVE THOUGHT FOR A COHERENT COSMOLOGY --; 4 COSMOLOGICAL CHANGE Historical Homologism and ‘Chinese Thought’ --; 5 SCALE, COGNITION AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE --; CONCLUSION Cosmic Coherence and Correlative Comparison --; APPENDIX The Content of the Yijing --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800732698
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800732698
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800732698/original
ER  -