Imagining the Course of Life: Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community 9780824841751
Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible intro
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Table of contents :
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
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
- Author / Uploaded
- Nancy Eberhardt
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