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100 1 _aKlima, Alan,
_d1964-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEthnography #9
_cAlan Klima.
264 1 _bDuke University Press,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (1 online resource)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aLotteries
_zThailand.
650 0 _aSeances
_zThailand.
650 0 _aFinancial crises
_zThailand.
651 0 _aThailand
_xEconomic conditions.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
776 1 8 _iPrint version:
_tEthnography #9
_dDurham : Duke University Press, 2019.
_z9781478005445
_w(DLC) 2019011188
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/71617/
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