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Fengshui in China : geomantic divination between state orthodoxy and popular religion / Ole Bruun ; foreword by Stephan Feuchtwang.

Title
Fengshui in China : geomantic divination between state orthodoxy and popular religion / Ole Bruun ; foreword by Stephan Feuchtwang.
Author
Bruun, Ole, 1953-
Publication
Copenhagen, Denmark : NIAS Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors
Feuchtwang, Stephan.
Description
xiv, 305 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Man & nature in Asia ; no. 8
Uniform Title
Man and nature in Asia ; no. 8
Subject
  • Geschichte 1850-2003
  • Feng shui > China > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "Simultaneously published in the United States by the University of Hawaii Press"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-300) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Fengshui : a challenge to anthropology -- Fengshui practices and policies, 1850 to 1949 -- Fengshui practices and policies after 1949 -- The fengshui revival : fieldwork in Sichuan -- Another school of fengshui : fieldwork in Jiangsu -- Fengshui applications and possible interpretations -- The construction of a discourse : fengshui as environmental ethics -- Conclusion -- Appendix: On the origin of fengshui and the history of its literature.
ISBN
0700716734
OCLC
  • 52480484
  • SCSB-10525757
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library