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
Anthropology of knowledge, anthropology of religion, anthropology of memory, divination, destiny, Chinese religions, popular science
Fieldwork: Taipei (Taiwan), Beijing, Kaifeng
Positions
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
2015 | “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). In: Ethnographiques.org. Vol. 31, Special issue “La part de la main” coordinated by Nicolas Adell and Sophie Chevalier. | Online |
2014 | “The Fortunes of a Scholar: When the Yijing Challenged Modern Astronomy”. In: Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 73 Nr. 3, S. 733-752. | |
2014 | “’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). In: Etudes chinoises. Vol. 33 Nr. 2, S. 153-175. | |
2014 | “Les usages de la main dans les calculs divinatoires” (The Uses of the Hand in Divinatory Calculations). In: Etudes chinoises. Vol. 33 Nr. 1, S. 113-132. | |
2013 | “Pursue Good Fortune and Avoid Calamity: The Practice and Status of Divination in Contemporary Taiwan”. In: Journal of Chinese Religions. Vol. 41 Nr. 2, S. 124-147. | |
2013 | “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). In: Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident. Vol. 35, Special issue “Les Astres et le Destin. Astrologie et divination en Asie orientale” coordinated by Pierre Marsone and Jean-Noël Robert, S. 11-43. | Online |
Book chapters
forthcoming | “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. | |
2017 | “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), S. 366-391. | |
2017 | “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, S. 486-493. | |
2015 | „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, S. 39-57. |
Book reviews
2014 | “Richard J. Smith, The I Ching: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012 (Lives of Great Religious Books)”. In: Etudes chinoises. Vol. 33 Nr. 2, S. 194-197. | |
2006 | “Cheng Ying, in collaboration with Claude Aubert, The Peasants of Mancang: the Chronicle of a Taiwanese village”. In: China Perspectives. Vol. 65 (May-June 2006), S. 386. | Online |