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Funeral Casino

Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand

Autor: Alan Klima
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Princeton University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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"The Funeral Casino" is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand'...

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Autor
Alan Klima
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2002
Pagini
336
EAN
9780691074603
ISBN
0691074607
Enbook ID
04640170
Editura
Princeton University Press
Greutate
510
Dimensiuni
152 x 235 x 20

Descriere completă

"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 freewheeling market of illegal "massacre-imagery" videos blossomed in Bangkok on the very site where, days earlier, for the third time in two decades, a military-controlled government had killed scores of unarmed pro-democracy protesters. Such killings and their subsequent representation have lent force to Thailand's transition from military control to a "media-financial complex."Probing the ways in which death is marketed, visualized, and remembered through practices both local and global, Klima inverts conventional relationships between ethnography and theory through a compelling narrative that reveals a surprising new direction available to anthropology and critical theory. Ethnography here engages with the philosophy of activism and the politics of memory, media representation of violence, and globalization. In focusing on the particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present, this book unveils a vivid and haunting picture of community, responsibility, and accountability in the new world order.

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