Imagining the Course of Life: Self-transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community - Couverture souple

Eberhardt, Nancy

 
9780824830175: Imagining the Course of Life: Self-transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0824830172 ISBN 13 : 9780824830175
Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 Euro-American tradition and invites us to reconsider how we think about the trajectory of a human life.

Moving beyond the entrenched categories that can hamper our understanding of other views, Imagining the Course of Life demonstrates the real-life connections between the religious and the psychological. Eberhardt shows how such beliefs and practices are used, sometimes strategically, in people's constructions of themselves, in their interpretations of others' behavior, and in their attempts at social positioning. Individual chapters explore Shan ideas about the overall course of human development, from infancy to old age and beyond, and show how these ideas inform people's understanding of personhood and maturity, gender and social inequality, illness and well-being, emotions and mental health.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nancy Eberhardt is professor of anthropology at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

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Éditeur
University of Hawai'i Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0824830172
ISBN 13 
9780824830175
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780824829193: Imagining the Course of Life: Self-transformation in a Shan Buddhist

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ISBN 10 :  0824829190 ISBN 13 :  9780824829193
Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 2006
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