Imagining the Good Life - Lim, Francis Khek Gee
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This is a book of great originality that analyses cultural change and experience of development in terms of the pursuit of the a ~good lifea (TM) as a social process. While recent anthropological critiques of development highlight the importance of a ~local knowledgea (TM), this book argues that these critiques have not gone far enough, and suggests that a much more fundamental issue concerns the ends of development as seen from a more holistic, cultural perspective. Based on ethnographic research among an ethnic Tibetan community in the Nepal Himalaya, the book eloquently illustrates how the…mehr

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This is a book of great originality that analyses cultural change and experience of development in terms of the pursuit of the a ~good lifea (TM) as a social process. While recent anthropological critiques of development highlight the importance of a ~local knowledgea (TM), this book argues that these critiques have not gone far enough, and suggests that a much more fundamental issue concerns the ends of development as seen from a more holistic, cultural perspective. Based on ethnographic research among an ethnic Tibetan community in the Nepal Himalaya, the book eloquently illustrates how the pursuit of the good life is inextricably tied to space and history, and demonstrates the relevance of ethno-historically generated conceptions of the a ~good lifea (TM) to the practice of development.
Autorenporträt
Francis Khek Gee Lim, Ph.D. (2004) in Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). His research interests include religion, tourism, and the politics of development.