LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan klima

2 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan klima

  • Ethnography #9
    Alan Klima
    As Alan Klima writes in Ethnography #9, 'there are other possible starting places than the earnest realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought.' In this experimental ethnography of capitalism, ghosts, and numbers in mid- and late-twentieth-century Thailand, Klima uses this provocation to deconstruct naive faith in the 'real' and in the material in acade...
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  • The Funeral Casino
    Alan Klima
    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 Buddhist meditation on death. The fieldwork for the book began in 1992, when a freewheelin...
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