Overview
- Presents a unique approach to person-centered anthropology
- Provides a practice theory that incorporates and explains sources of cultural change
- Draws on three years of fieldwork in Thailand examining stories important to the lives of Bangkok Buddhists on topics ranging from karma to ghosts
Part of the book series: Culture, Mind, and Society (CMAS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Narratives That Construct Linguistic Realities
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Languages That Shape Thai Worlds: The Manut and the Khon in Bangkok
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About this book
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.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Steven Grant Carlisle is Lecturer in Anthropology at California State University at San Marcos, USA. Dr. Carlisle specializes in anthropology of religion, psychological anthropology, and the study of narratives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narrative Practice and Cultural Change
Book Subtitle: Building Worlds with Karma, Ghosts, and Capitalist Invaders in Thailand
Authors: Steven Grant Carlisle
Series Title: Culture, Mind, and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49548-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49547-3Published: 29 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49550-3Published: 30 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49548-0Published: 28 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2637-6806
Series E-ISSN: 2634-517X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 281
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Social Anthropology, History of Southeast Asia, Comparative Religion, Asian Culture, Ethnography