Ole Bruun is Associate Professor at Roskilde University’s Institute for Society and Globalization. Besides working on fengshui and Asian perceptions of nature in general, he is a leading scholar on Mongolian studies.
Ole Bruun is Associate Professor at Roskilde University’s Institute for Society and Globalization. Besides working on fengshui and Asian perceptions of nature in general, he is a leading scholar on Mongolian studies.
Books by this author
Mongols From Country to City
Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands
Analyses the process of cultural change both in Mongolia and the wider Mongol lands in China and Russia since the early twentieth century.
Fengshui in China
Geomantic Divination between State Orthodoxy and Popular Religion
For well over a century Chinese fengshui, or geomancy, has fascinated western laymen and scholars. The focus of this academic study is on fengshui's significance in China and the author's argument that fengshui serves as an alternative tradition of cosmological knowledge which is used to explain a range of everyday occurrences in rural areas such as disease, mental disorders, accidents and common mischief.