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Culture, Mind, and Society: Building Worlds with Karma, Ghosts, and Capitalist Invaders in Thailand
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Culture, Mind, and Society: Building Worlds with Karma, Ghosts, and Capitalist Invaders in Thailand
Carlisle, Steven Grant
This book presents a unique approach to person-centered anthropology, providing a new form of practice theory that incorporates and explains sources of cultural change. Built around the learning and use of autobiographical narrative forms, it draws from, and expands on, phenomenological, psychological, and moral anthropological traditions.
The author draws on extensive original fieldwork in Thailand to explore questions including: how Buddhism has dealt with the appearance of global capitalism; and why some Thais continue to pursue nirvana-oriented Buddhist practices when karma-oriented reward-systems seem to be more satisfying as a whole. Where previous person-centered ethnographies have explored the ways in which social forces cause individuals to conform to cultural norms, this work advances the analysis by focusing on how ideas are transmitted from individuals to into wider society. This book will provide fresh insights of particular interest to psychological, phenomenological and narrative anthropologists; as well as to researchers working in the fields of religious and Asian studies.Details
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2020-07-29
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9783030495473
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49548-0
Dimensions: 210cm x148cm
Pages: 281