Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
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