The animal and the daemon in early China [[electronic resource] /] / Roel Sterckx
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Sterckx Roel <1969->
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| Titolo: |
The animal and the daemon in early China [[electronic resource] /] / Roel Sterckx
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human-animal relationships - China |
| Animals and civilization - China | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-351) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""The Animal and the Daemon in Early China""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction: Contextualizing Animals""; ""The Animal and the Daemon""; ""Animals as Images""; ""1. Defining Animals""; ""Problems of Definition""; ""Animals in Texts""; ""Naming Animals and Animal Names""; ""Conclusion""; ""2. Animals and Officers""; ""Managing Animals""; ""Ritual Animals""; ""Animals and Spirits""; ""Calendrical Animals""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. Categorizing Animals""; ""Qi and Blood""; ""Yinyang and the Five Phases: Correlative Taxonomies""; ""Toward a Moral Taxonomy""; ""Conclusion"" |
| ""4. The Animal and Territory""""Animal Patterns as Social Patterns""; ""Animals and Territory""; ""Animals beyond Territory""; ""Conclusion""; ""5. Transforming the Beasts""; ""Animals and the Origins of Music""; ""Animals, Music, and Moral Transformation""; ""The Transformation of Animals through Virtue""; ""Moral Hybrids""; ""“Speaking with Birds and Beasts�""; ""Conclusion""; ""6. Changing Animals""; ""A Cosmogony of Change""; ""Demonic Transformations""; ""Functional Metamorphosis""; ""Autonomous Transformations""; ""Symbolic Metamorphosis""; ""Portentous Transformations"" | |
| ""Metamorphosing Agents""""Critique of Change""; ""Conclusion""; ""7. Strange Animals""; ""Defining the Strange""; ""Interpreting the Strange""; ""Confucius Names the Beasts""; ""When the Grackos Nest in Lu""; ""The Dog as Daemon""; ""The Capture of the White Unicorn""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The animal and the daemon in early China |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8915-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785563003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture