Nancy Eberhardt's Imagining the Course of Life, published by University of Hawai'i Press in 2006, is a peer reviewed ethnographic study of self transformation across the life course in a Shan Buddhist community. Its authority rests on standard university press review and on fieldwork carried out directly within the community it describes. Its scope is that one Shan Buddhist community rather than Buddhism generally, so a claim drawn from it should be read as ethnographically specific rather than as a general statement about Theravada practice.
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Nancy Eberhardt's Imagining the Course of Life, published by University of Hawai'i Press in 2006, is a peer reviewed ethnographic study built on direct fieldwork within the Shan Buddhist community it describes, treated at the top tier as university-press peer reviewed ethnography. NotesEthnographic study of self-transformation and the life course in a Shan Buddhist community, University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.
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AuthorNancy Eberhardt
PublisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
Publication Year2006
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Theravada directly: "than as a general statement about Theravada practice."
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This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Rituals, 14 claims: 13 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
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