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

by Nancy Eberhardt

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0824830172

ISBN13:9780824830175

Release Date:February 2006

Publisher:University of Hawaii Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.86 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Asia Buddhism Cultural General History Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences Southeast Asia Thailand

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