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SUMMARY:Early China Seminar Lecture Series:  “Divination and the Body in Ancient China”
DESCRIPTION:“Divination and the Body in Ancient China” \nConstance A. Cook\,  Lehigh University \nFriday\, May 4\, 2018\n4:30-6:30 PM\nLocation: 403 Kent Hall \nPart of a larger book project\, which focuses on how the human body is defined through the process of divination\, this presentation takes the turtle plastron used in late Shang divination as a proxy body for the king and studies how the plastron functions as both medium and substitute to heal the afflicted king’s body. The study also defines the king’s “body” as not limited by its skin boundary but in fact symbolically extended to include the Shang state and its inhabitants. Of special interest is the idea that the bodies\, both the turtle’s and the king’s\, were permeable and thus were open to the intimate influence of spiritual or cosmic agencies. Within this context\, the presentation further explores the practice of exorcism\, and how afflicted bodies were healed. \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/early-china-seminar-lecture-series-divination-and-the-body-in-ancient-china/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 1140 Amsterdam Ave.\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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