Imagining the course of life
Subtitle: self-transformation in a Shan Buddhist community
By: Nancy Eberhardt.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780824829193; 9780824830175
Subjects: Shan (Asian people) -- Thailand -- Religion.; Buddhism -- Thailand -- Customs and practices.; Shan (Asian people) -- Thailand -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Spirits, souls, and selves : the body as a contested site; title: Souls into spirits : death as self-transformation; title: Domesticating the self; title: Maintaining health and well-being; title: Marking maturity : the negotiation of social inequalities at midlife; title: The ethnopsychology of aging and overall development; title: Imagined lives.