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The System Illustration of Beliefs and Superstitions

Tags: belief | documents | superstition

 

Main title: Beliefs and Superstitions
Creator: Kanori Ino
Description: This is Kanori Ino’s systematic concept on the beliefs and superstitions of the Han people
Collection: Manuscripts of Kanori Ino

This is Kanori Ino’s, a Japanese anthropologist, systematic concept on the beliefs and superstitions of the Han people. In this illustration, Kanori Ino divides the system of beliefs and superstitions into two categories—subject and object. The former refers to gods and ghosts whose existence displays the characteristics of a subject; the latter refers to rituals, sacrifices, and divination, whose existence needs to be executed. Kanori Ino also created a very detailed categorization by type.

 

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