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"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...

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Main Author: Klima, Alan, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sozialer Aufstieg
Lotterie
Geisterglaube
Numerologie
Kulturanthropologie
Seances.
Lotteries.
Financial crises.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Loteries > Thaïlande.
Seances de spiritisme > Thaïlande.
Lotteries > Thailand.
Seances > Thailand.
Financial crises > Thailand.
Thailand
Thailand.
Thaïlande > Conditions economiques.
Thailand > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (190 pages).
ISBN:9781478007111
Access:Open Access

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