Divination and power - A multiregional view of the development of oracle bone divination in early China

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Flad, Rowan K. [1 ]
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[1] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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10.1086/588495
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Q98 [人类学];
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Divination is a ritual practice frequently employed as a source of social and political power. Elaborate forms of divination can be crucial to state control and have widespread influence. In ancient China as elsewhere, divination was the domain of ritual specialists who used their skills to mediate uncertainty, but the role that these specialists played in society differed considerably from one place to another. An examination of divination remains from the Neolithic, Shang, and Zhou periods of China suggests that more elaborate divination procedures are associated with bureaucratic institutions as a source of state power.
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