The Funeral Casino : Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Klima, Alan, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Boeddhisme.
Massamedia.
Riten.
Politieke aspecten.
Geweld.
Dood.
Violence in mass media.
Politics and government
Meditation > Buddhism.
Massacres.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
HISTORY.
Violence dans les medias.
Meditation > Bouddhisme.
Mort > Aspect religieux > Bouddhisme.
Funerailles > Rites et ceremonies > Thaïlande.
Violence dans les medias > Thaïlande.
Massacres > Thaïlande.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Thailand.
Massacres > Thailand.
Thailand.
Thaïlande > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1988.
Thaïlande > Politique et gouvernement > 1988-
Thaïlande > Politique et gouvernement > 1948-1988.
Thailand > Politics and government > 1988-
Thailand > Politics and government > 1945-1988.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Passed : The new world : Bangkok and the world order without history
  • Revolting history : The necromantic power of public massacres
  • Bloodless power : the moral economy of the Thai crowd
  • Repulsiveness of the body politic : an economics of the Black May Massacre
  • Kamma : The Charnel Ground : visions of death in Buddhist ascesis and the redemption of mechanical reproduction
  • The funeral casino : a mindful economy.

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