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Imagining the Course of Life: Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community
Nancy Eberhardt
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Paperback. Moving beyond the entrenched categories that can hamper our understanding of other views, this book demonstrates the real-life connections between the "religious" and the "psychological." It shows how such beliefs and practices are used, sometimes strategically, in people's constructions of themselves, and in their attempts at social positioning. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; HRE; JFSR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism, as it is actually lived and experienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of human development and a theoretical consideration of how any ethnopsychology is embedded in society and culture. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a Shan village in northern Thailand, Nancy Eberhardt illustrates how indigenous theories of the life course are connected to local constructions of self and personhood. In the process, she draws our attention to contrasting models in the ... Read more
Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism, as it is actually lived and experienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of human development and a theoretical consideration of how any ethnopsychology is embedded in society and culture. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a Shan village in northern Thailand, Nancy Eberhardt illustrates how indigenous theories of the life course are connected to local constructions of self and personhood. In the process, she draws our attention to contrasting models in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824830175
SKU
V9780824830175
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About Nancy Eberhardt
Nancy Eberhardt is professor of anthropology at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
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