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The Funeral Casino : Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand /
The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddh...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2009]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Note on Transcription and Monetary Conversion
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part I. The Passed
- Chapter 2. The New World
- Chapter 3. Revolting History
- Chapter 4. Bloodless Power
- Chapter 5. Repulsiveness of the Body Politic
- Part II. Kamma
- Chapter 6. The Charnel Ground
- Chapter 7. The Funeral Casino
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index