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Imagining the course of life : self-transformation in a Shan Buddhist community
- Title
- Imagining the course of life : self-transformation in a Shan Buddhist community / Nancy Eberhardt.
- Author
- Eberhardt, Nancy.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- xiv, 208 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Spirits, souls, and selves : the body as a contested site -- Ch. 3. Souls into spirits : death as self-transformation -- Ch. 4. Domesticating the self -- Ch. 5. Maintaining health and well-being -- Ch. 6. Marking maturity : the negotiation of social inequalities at midlife -- Ch. 7. The ethnopsychology of aging and overall development -- Ch. 8. Imagined lives.
- ISBN
- 0824829190 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0824830172 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005024344
- 9780824829193
- 9780824830175
- OCLC
- OCM61362097
- SCSB-5230413
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries