Imagining the Course of Life : : Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community /

Imagining the Course of Life : : Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community / / Nancy Eberhardt.

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 cons...

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Eberhardt, Nancy,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 18 illus., 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transcription
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Spirits, Souls, and Selves: The Body as a Contested Site
  • Chapter 3. Souls into Spirits: Death as Self-Transformation
  • Chapter 4. Domesticating the Self
  • Chapter 6. Marking Maturity: The Negotiation of Social Inequalities at Midlife
  • Chapter 7. The Ethnopsychology of Aging and Overall Development
  • Chapter 8. Imagined Lives
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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