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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795669503321

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.

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Record Nr.

UNISA996647868003316

Autore

Su Ruisheng

Titolo

Image Analysis in Stroke Diagnosis and Interventions : 4th International Workshop, SWITCH 2024, and 6th International Challenge, ISLES 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 10, 2024, Proceedings / / edited by Ruisheng Su, Ezequiel de la Rosa, Leonhard Rist, Ewout Heylen, Frank te Nijenhuis, Danny Ruijters, Markus D. Schirmer, Richard McKinley, Susanne Wegener, Roland Wiest, Theo van Walsum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

9783031811012

3031811011

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 15408

Altri autori (Persone)

de la RosaEzequiel

RistLeonhard

HeylenEwout

te NijenhuisFrank

RuijtersDanny

SchirmerMarkus D

McKinleyR. A (Richard Alexander)

WegenerSusanne

WiestRoland

Disciplina

006.37

Soggetti

Computer vision

Medical informatics

Social sciences - Data processing

Application software

Education - Data processing

Artificial intelligence

Computer Vision

Health Informatics

Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences



Computer and Information Systems Applications

Computers and Education

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International MICCAI Stroke Workshop on Imaging and Treatment Challenges, SWITCH 2024, as well as the Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation Challenge, ISLES 2024, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco, on October 10, 2024. The 12 revised full papers presented in this volume were selected form 16 submissions. The papers describe research advancements in image analysis for the diagnosis and intervention of ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke and present the latest developments in segmentation, disease prognosis, stroke diagnosis and treatment, and other clinically relevant applications.