1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996272346103316

Autore

CENDRARS, Blaise

Titolo

Moravagine / Blaise Cendrars ; traduzione di Leopoldo Carra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Adelphi, 2018

ISBN

978-88-459-3255-7

Descrizione fisica

249 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Biblioteca Adelphi ; 683

Disciplina

843.912

Collocazione

VI.4.A. 2024

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000392810203316

Titolo

La Banca d'Italia e il risanamento post-bellico : 1945-1948 / a cura di Sergio Ricossa e Ercole Tuccimei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Laterza, 1992

ISBN

88-420-4153-X

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 658 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Collana storica della Banca d'Italia . Ser. Documenti ; 10

Disciplina

332.110945

Soggetti

Banca d'Italia - 1945-1948 - Documenti

Collocazione

COLL. PCL 10

XV.14.C. 50

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818665603321

Autore

Jackson Peter A.

Titolo

Capitalism magic Thailand : modernity with enchantment / / by Peter A. Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

981-4951-97-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 pages)

Disciplina

133.43

Soggetti

Magic - Economic aspects - Thailand

Wealth - Thailand - Religious aspects

Cults - Thailand

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Images -- Note on Transliteration, Referencing and Honorific Titles -- Introduction: Modern Magic and Prosperity in Thailand -- Key Terms: Debates, Theories and Contexts -- Part One Why Religious Modernity Trends in Two Opposing Directions -- 1. Fundamentalism against Magic: The Contradictions of Religious Modernity -- 2. Buddhist in Public, Animist in Private: Semicolonial Modernity and Transformations of the Thai Religious Field -- Part Two Thailand’s Cults of Wealth -- 3. Context, Hierarchy and Ritual: Theorizing the Total Thai Religious Field -- 4. Thailand’s Cults of Wealth: Royal Spirits, Magic Monks, Chinese and Indian Deities -- 5. Empowered Amulets and Spirit Possession: Material and Ritual Dimensions of the Thai Cults of Wealth -- 6. The Symbolic Complex of Thai Cults of Wealth -- Part Three How Modernity Makes Magic -- 7. Capitalism, Media and Ritual in the Enchantment of Thai Modernity -- Conclusion Conclusion: The Thai Cults of Wealth into the Twenty-first Century -- Glossary of Thai and Buddhist Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

By studying intersections among new cults of wealth, ritually empowered amulets and professional spirit mediumship--which have emerged together in Thailand's dynamic religious field in recent



decades--Capitalism Magic Thailand explores the conditions under which global modernity produces new varieties of enchantment. Bruno Latour's account of modernity as a condition fractured between rationalizing ideology and hybridizing practice is expanded to explain the apparent paradox of new forms of magical ritual emerging alongside religious fundamentalism across a wide range of Asian societies. In Th.