Tak-ke ho: Jin-lui-hak siong chu-tiong chai-te e gi-gian bun-hoa thoan-thong. Ku-ni "Bi-kok Jin-lui-hak-ka" chit e ki-khan u chit phiN bun-chiuN teh gian-kiu Tai-gi sng-mia e "chhiam" su-iong POJ. Hak-khiam Fate in the narrativity and experience of selfhood, a case from Taiwanese chhiam divination
American Ethnologist ; Arlington; Nov 2002; Donald J Hatfield;

| Volume: | 29
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Issue: | 4
Start Page: | 857-877
Page Count: | 0
Document Type: | Feature
Source Type: | PERIODICAL
ISSN: | 00940496
Subject Terms: | Poetry
History
Spirituality
Indigenous people
Politics

Geographic Names: Taiwan

UMI Article Re. No.: | PAET-2025-3
UMI Journal Code: | PAET
Abstract:
_In this article, Hatfield examine the deployment of poetry in Taiwanese practices of calculating fate. Observing that fate is both a grounding notion to self-representation in narrative and to the recognition of efficacious agents in a social field, he analyze texts and interpretive practices of poetic divination, attending to specific featuresthat give fate its compelling qualities. Most important among these features is the chronotopic character of divination poems, which shape the experience of selfhood in alternation and encounter through time. Investigating how poetic contrast sets (such as those between gathering and dispersal, fate as coterminous with a lifespan and fate as linked to specific opportunities) produce these chronotopes, he asks how the poetics of fate informs the distribution and abeyance of agency in particular situations of crisis. In particular, he focuses on crises that lead to divination, emerging as fresh junctures in life historical narratives. Finally, in light of the role of fate in the interpretation of these variously distributed junctures and agents, he suggests that the notion of fate could inform ethnographic work on micropolitics.

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