About Author

Scott Davis is a Visiting Fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in the project on “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication: Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe.” He holds a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University, an MA from Harvard University, and a BA from the Ohio State University. In addition to publishing several books and articles in Chinese on the Yi jing, he has also conducted fieldwork on spirit possession and folk therapeutics practiced by mediums in Taiwan.