Author: BRUUN, OLE
Title: Fengshui in China Geomantic Divination between State Orthodoxy and Popular Religion
Description: Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0824826728. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "For well over a century Chinese fengshui, or geomancy, has fascinated western laymen and scholars. The focus of this academic study is on fengshui's significance in China and the author's argument that fengshui serves as an alternative tradition of cosmological knowledge which is used to explain a range of everyday occurrences in rural areas such as disease, mental disorders, accidents and common mischief." (from NIAS press). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0824826728 Metaphysics Ole Bruun Cosmology Healing Practices Fengshui China


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