In the Place of Origins - Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand

"Traveling from spirit mediumship to the ethnography of the finance capital market, "In the Place of Origins" combines theoretical bravura with brilliant narrative skill. As it comments on ethnographic self-fashioning in Thailand, it also examines the mediumship of disciplinary ethnography, and the alterity it so anxiously seeks to expell. This is a text of dazzling instructive simplicity."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Note on Transcription x

Introduction 1

1 Writing, Exchange, Translation: A Poetics of the Modern 13

2 Ruin, or, What the New City Remembers 55

3 First, Forgetting 80

4 The Appearance of Order 107

5 The Secret of the Dish 150

6 Transmissions, or, the Appearance of Culture 181

7 Representations: Locality and the Spirit of Democracy 240

8 Outside, Eyeless, and on Fire: The Apotheosis of Representation 287

9 After All Else: The End of Mediumship? 332

Bibliography 351

Index 371

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Rosalind C. Morris is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography, and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures.

Zusammenfassung

A theoretical account of how spirit mediums mediate the Thai experience of capitalist modernity.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Morris, Rosalind C Morris, Rosalind C. Morris, Rosalind C. Morris
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 21.04.2000
• EAN: 9780822324812
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2481-2
• Seiten: 392
• Abmessung: 168 mm x 241 mm x 28 mm
• Gewicht: 816 g
• Serien: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde