Fate Calculation Experts Wendy Smith

Fate Calculation Experts Wendy SmithHaving 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

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Stray Birds is a powerful collection of short poems by a master of Indian literature

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This biography analyzes the remarkable exploits of a man driven by ambition-and unhindered by scruples-to attain position and prestige in the Atlantic region during the second half of the nineteenth century

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The political momentum gathered by the postmodernist challenge to Enlightenment ideals has made the notion of truth more central than ever in politics

Through an examination of seven different cultures-American

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This is the history of one of the largest nursing organizations in the world and one of the largest professional associations of women

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