| title | authors | external_url | source_url | drive_links | course | status | tags | year | month | journal | volume | number | pages | publisher | openalexid | ||||
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Karma Masters: The Ethical Wound, Hauntological Choreography, and Complex Personhood in Thailand |
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karma |
featured |
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2020 |
aug |
American Anthropologist |
122 |
4 |
759--770 |
Wiley |
W3081959391 |
How can one make sense of ethical action when one is always already partly the other?
A medical anthropologist analyzes the Thai concept of the เจ้ากรรมนายเวร (čhao kam nāi wēn) and explores how a more porous sense of self helps Chiang Mai Buddhists to manage pain and assemble good lives.