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010 _z 2019980315
020 _a9781478007111
020 _z9781478090205
020 _z9781478006213
020 _z9781478005445
035 _a(OCoLC)1104860359
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aKlima, Alan,
_d1964-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEthnography #9 /
_cAlan Klima.
264 1 _aDurham :
_bDuke University Press,
_c2019.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2020
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a1 online resource (190 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
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 7 _aSozialer Aufstieg
_2gnd
650 7 _aLotterie
_2gnd
650 7 _aGeisterglaube
_2gnd
650 7 _aNumerologie
_2gnd
650 7 _aKulturanthropologie
_2gnd
650 7 _aSeances.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01110345
650 7 _aLotteries.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01002676
650 7 _aFinancial crises.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00924607
650 7 _aEconomic history.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00901974
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
_xAnthropology
_xCultural.
_2bisacsh
650 6 _aLoteries
_zThaïlande.
650 6 _aSeances de spiritisme
_zThaïlande.
650 0 _aLotteries
_zThailand.
650 0 _aSeances
_zThailand.
650 0 _aFinancial crises
_zThailand.
651 7 _aThailand
_2gnd
651 7 _aThailand.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01205310
651 6 _aThaïlande
_xConditions economiques.
651 0 _aThailand
_xEconomic conditions.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/71617/
999 _c233250
_d233249