Imagining the Course of Life Ethnology The authors shift the focus

The authors shift the focus to smaller settlements and more peripheral communities

and the Burmese Way to Socialism

”—Donald K

Open discussion of these events – especially the killings – was impossible during the period of Suharto’s rule except in one area

Imagining the Course of Life Ethnology The authors shift the focusDrawing on long term fieldwork in a Shan village in northern Thailand, Nancy Eberhardt illustrates how indigenous theories of the life course are connected to local constructions of self and personhood. In the process, she draws our attention to contrasting models in the Euro American tradition and invites us to reconsider how we think about the trajectory of a human life. Bringing together work from the fields of psychological anthropology, cultural