Imagining the Course of Life: Self-transformation in Shan Buddhist Community - Softcover

Nancy Eberhardt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9749511328 ISBN 13: 9789749511329

Publisher: SILKWORM BOOKS / Bangkok, 2006

Synopsis

"Nancy Eberhardt's study of a shan village in northwest Thailand analyzes religion,worldview. ritual, and customary practices as strategies for identity construction and for insight into shan theories of human development and human nature. 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. Bringing together work from the fields of psychological anthropology, cultural history, and Southeast Asian studies, Imagining the Course of Life speaks to a wide range of readers and will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, religious studies, human development, and moral philosophy. About the author Nancy Eberhardt received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently professor of anthropology at Knox College. Her research interests include religion, psychological anthropology, subjectivity and modernity, and social inequality. What the others are saying "Nancy Eberhardt's study of a Shan village in northwest Thailand analyzes religion, worldview, ritual, and customary practices as strategies for identity construction and for insight into Shan theories of human development and human nature. It is a marvelous explication of the dialectic between cultural forms and personal interpretations and makes a unique contribution to the field of ethnopsychology." -Donald K. Swearer, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University

About this edition

• Publisher: SILKWORM BOOKS / Bangkok
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9749511328
• ISBN 13: 9789749511329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224