Ethnography #9 / Alan Klima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klima, Alan, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--Thailand.

Financial crises.

Seances--Thailand.

Seances.

Lotteries--Thailand.

Lotteries.

Thailand--Economic conditions.

Thailand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"ETHNOGRAPHY #9 looks at Thai spiritual and financial practices, and at the relationship of these local practices to global capitalism's abstraction of monetary value. Through his examination of moneylending, gambling, funeral casinos, and the consultation of spirits and mediums to predict winning lottery numbers, Alan Klima challenges the assumptions of anthropology's "ontological turn" and reveals the limitations of theoretical explanations of capitalist fantasy that are grounded in the rational and the "real." Looking critically at the work done by conventional ethnographic writing in performing the very objectivity and realism that it claims as its method, Klima instead embraces a distinctive literary form of storytelling that hovers between being and not being, presence and absence, fiction and non-fiction, and fantasy and reality"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The ghost manifesto

World Gothic

Betting on the real

Prove it

Regendered debt

Men and our money

The godfathers

It has all happened before

The return of the dead

Reversing the mount

Deterritory

Everywhere and nowhere

The end of the world

Fossil.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478006213

1478006218

9781478007111

1478007117

OCLC:

1104860359

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access