Abstract
This chapter explores the rainmaking practices of ritual exposure and self-immolation. It discusses the practices of different performers, including emperors, local officials, Buddhist monks, Daoist clerics, and female shamans. Their practices provide different models of understanding rainmaking rituals, each replete with its own set of ritual technologies and logic. It also discusses the various exorcistic powers of the human body in relation to rainmaking. The chapter argues that despite the diversity and the different types of performers, what underlies the different rainmaking practices is a performance-centered understanding of the universe that is thaumaturgical.
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