Prof. Dr. Stéphanie Homola
Prof. Dr. Stéphanie Homola
Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Nahen Ostens und Ostasiens
Juniorprofessur für Ethnologie mit Schwerpunkt asiatischer Raum
- Telefon: +49 9131 85 64364
- E-Mail: stephanie.homola@fau.de
Fieldwork: Taipei (Taiwan), Beijing, Kaifeng
| 2016-2017 | Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department III, Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge) & Erlangen-Nuremberg University (IKGF): joint-project “Accounting for Uncertainty: Prediction and Planning in Asia’s History” |
| Post-doctoral Fellow, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange | |
| 2014-2016 | Research Fellow, Collège de France, Prof. Anne Cheng’s Chair of Chinese Intellectual History |
| 2014 | Post-doctoral Fellow, Erlangen-Nuremberg University, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF), “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe” |
| Since 2013
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Associate Research Fellow, Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (CECMC), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) |
Education
| 2013 | PhD in Social Anthropology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Connaissances du destin: anthropologie des pratiques de divination contemporaines en Chine et à Taïwan (Knowing fate: an anthropology of contemporary divinatory practices in China and Taiwan) |
| 2008 | MA in Social Science, major in Anthropology of China, EHESS |
| 2006 | BA in Chinese studies, National Institute of Oriental Language and Civilization (INALCO), Paris |
| 2003 | MSc, ESSEC Business School, Paris –– major in Law |
articles in peer-reviewed journals
- “Ce que la main sait du destin: opérations et manipulations dans les pratiques divinatoires chinoises” (What the hand knows about destiny: processes and handlings within Chinese divination). Ethnographiques.org, 31, Special issue “La part de la main” coordinated by Nicolas Adell and Sophie Chevalier (online), www.ethnographiques.org/2015/Homola
- “The Fortunes of a Scholar: When the Yijing Challenged Modern Astronomy”. Journal of Asian Studies, 73.3, 733-752.
- “Le cas du „dragon chinois“: légende, destin et chance autour d’un jeu divinatoire” (The Case of “Chinese dragon”: Legend, Destiny and Luck in a Divination Game). Etudes chinoises, 33.2, 153-175.
- “Les usages de la main dans les calculs divinatoires” (The Uses of the Hand in Divinatory Calculations). Etudes chinoises, 33.1, 113-132.
- “Pursue Good Fortune and Avoid Calamity: The Practice and Status of Divination in Contemporary Taiwan”. Journal of Chinese Religions, 41.2, 124-147.
- “La relation de maître à disciple en question: transmission orale et écrite des savoirs divinatoires en Chine et à Taïwan” (Interrogating the Master-Disciple Relation: Oral and Written Transmission of Divinatory Knowledge in China and Taiwan). Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, 35, Special issue “Les Astres et le Destin. Astrologie et divination en Asie orientale” coordinated by Pierre Marsone and Jean-Noël Robert, 11-43. Available on https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01493088
Book chapters
- “From jianghu to liumang: working conditions and cultural identity of wandering fortune-tellers in contemporary China”. In Michael Lackner (ed.), Coping with the Future. Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia. Leiden: Brill (Sinica Leidensa 138), 366-391.
- “Selections on Illness Divination from Bodhidharma’s Treasure of the Palm”. In C. Pierce Salguero (ed.), Buddhism and Medecine. An Anthology of Premodern Sources. New York: Columbia University Press, 486-493.
- “Judging destiny: doubt and certainty in Chinese divinatory rituals”. In Daniela Berti, Anthony Good and Gilles Tarabout (ed.), Of Doubt and Proof. Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015, 39-57.
“Les pratiques divinatoires des Chinois en France: migration, globalisation et territoire”. In Vincent Goossaert and Fang Ling (ed.), La religion des Chinois en France. Paris: Éditions du CNRS (forthcoming).
“Les tourments de l’individu: égocentrisme et interdépendance dans les pratiques divinatoires chinoises”. In Patrick Sigwalt (ed.), Le sujet chinois et son environnement: manuel à l’usage de la clinique interculturelle. Paris: Editions du Cerf-Alpha (forthcoming).
“Echanges de savoir entre étudiants chinois et sinologues français à l’Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises (1927-1968)”. In Pierre-Étienne Will (ed.), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat et ses successeurs. Deux cents ans de sinologie française en France et en Chine. Paris: Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises (forthcoming).
Book reviews
“Richard J. Smith, The I Ching: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012 (Lives of Great Religious Books)”. Etudes chinoises, 2014, 33.2, 194-197.
“Cheng Ying, in collaboration with Claude Aubert, The Peasants of Mancang: the Chronicle of a Taiwanese village”. China Perspectives, May-June 2006, 65, [online]:
http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/640