TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klima,Alan
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Ethnography #9
SN  - 9781478007111
AV  - HC445 
U1  - 330.9593 23
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Lotteries
KW  - Thailand
KW  - Seances
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Open Access
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/71617/
ER  -