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Imagining the Course of Life: Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community 9780824841751

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

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