Stéphanie Homola
- Institut français de recherche sur l’Asie de l’Est (IFRAE)
Présentation
I am a social anthropologist, full-time Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE). Before joining CNRS, I have worked at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany (FAU) as Junior Professor of Ethnology (2017-2022), and Director (2018-2022) of the Elite Master Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” (SDAC). I have been a Visiting Scholar at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication” (IKGF), at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), and Research Fellow at College de France. Trained in Social Anthropology at EHESS (PhD, 2013) and in Chinese studies at INALCO, Paris, I have worked extensively on divinatory practices in contemporary Chinese societies. My book The Art of Fate Calculation. Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng was published in 2023 with Berghahn. In an anthropological and historical perspective, I am also interested in the cross-cultural travels and understanding of the Book of Changes classic, with a focus on inter-war France. My current research also focuses on bodily memory practices as technologies of knowledge that point at broader patterns of knowledge assimilation, application, and transmission in Chinese societies.
Publications
Publications
The Art of Fate CalculationBerghahn Books, 2023, Asian Anthropologies, 978-1-80073-812-6. ⟨10.3167/9781800738126⟩ |
DestinGilles Brougère; Emmanuelle Savignac. Dictionnaire des sciences du jeu, Érès, pp.83-89, 2024, Questions de société, 9782749280196. ⟨10.3917/eres.broug.2024.01.0085⟩ |
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The Living Traditions of DivinationMichael Lackner; Zhao Lu. Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China, 37, Brill, pp.502-536, 2022, Handbook of Oriental Studies, 978-90-04-51127-9. ⟨10.1163/9789004514263_014⟩ |
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The Encounter of the “Symbolic Chinese Science of the Yijing” with Western Modern Science in Interwar FranceBenjamin Wai-ming Ng. The Making of the Global Yijing in the Modern World, 4, Springer Singapore, pp.175-195, 2021, Chinese Culture, 978-981-33-6227-7. ⟨10.1007/978-981-33-6228-4_11⟩ |
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Le dialogue entre étudiants chinois et sinologues français à l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises (1927-1968)Pierre-Etienne Will; Michel Zink. Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat et ses successeurs. Deux cents ans de sinologie française en France et en Chine, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, pp.509-538, 2020, 978-2-87754-392-7 |
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Reducing Uncertainty through Computation in Chinese Divinatory ArtsDagmar Schäfer; Zhao Lu; Michael Lackner. Accounting for Uncertainty : Prediction and Planning in Asian History, Preprint 496, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Preprint 496), pp.55-68, 2019 |
Selections on Illness Divination from Bodhidharma's Treasure of the PalmC. Pierce Salguero. Buddhism and Medicine. An Anthology of Premodern Sources, Columbia University Press, pp.486-493, 2017, ⟨10.7312/salg17994-050⟩ |
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From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary ChinaMichael Lackner. Coping with the Future. Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia, 138, Brill, pp.366-391, 2017, Sinica Leidensia, 978-90-04-34653-6. ⟨10.1163/9789004356788_014⟩ |
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Judging Destiny. Doubt and Certainty in Chinese Divinatory RitualsDaniela Berti; Anthony Good; Gilles Tarabout. Of Doubt and Proof. Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment, Ashgate, pp.39-57, 2015, 9781472434517 |
Online Divination Ethnographies: The Transformative Impact of Digital Technology and Social Media on Divination PracticesInternational Journal of Divination and Prognostication, 6 (1), pp.1-7, 2025, ⟨10.1163/25899201-bja10018⟩ |
Mémoriser et compter avec les mains dans le monde chinois2023 |