Narrative Practice and Cultural Change: Building Worlds with Karma, Ghosts, and Capitalist Invaders in Thailand

by Steven Grant Carlisle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030495507
• ISBN13: 9783030495503
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"