Imagining the Course of Life by Nancy Eberhardt

Imagining the Course of Life by Nancy Eberhardt

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Zusammenfassung

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.

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Imagining the Course of Life by Nancy Eberhardt

Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life incontemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to thecomplexities of Theravada Buddhism, as it is actually lived andexperienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of humandevelopment and a theoretical consideration of how anyethnopsychology is embedded in society and culture. Drawing onlong-term fieldwork in a Shan village in northern Thailand, NancyEberhardt illustrates how indigenous theories of the life course areconnected to local constructions of self and personhood. In theprocess, she draws our attention to contrasting models in theEuro-American tradition and invites us to reconsider how we thinkabout the trajectory of a human life.
Nancy Eberhardt is professor of anthropology at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
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ISBN 13 9780824829193
ISBN 10 0824829190
Titel Imagining the Course of Life
Autor Nancy Eberhardt
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag University of Hawai'i Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2006-11-30
Seitenanzahl 248
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