Ethnography #9
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Author
Contributions
- Duke University Press - Contributor
Publication
2019 - Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
45,500 words, Guess
Page Count
182 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveethnography900klim
- ISBN-101478005440
- ISBN-101478006218
- ISBN-139781478005445
- ISBN-139781478006213
and 8 more
- ISBN-139781478007111
- ISBN-101478007117
- Library of Congress Control Number2019011188
- OCLC Control Number1104858146
- Better World Books9781478006213
- Better World Books9781478007111
- Better World Books9781478005445
- Open LibraryOL28363806M
Classifications
- LCCHC445 .K556 2019
- LCCHC445
- LCCHC445.K556 2019
Alternate Titles
- Ethnography number nine
Description
"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"--
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