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The animal and the daemon in early China /
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| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.