03930nam 2200805 a 450 991017221650332120200520144314.01-4008-1682-31-282-15915-11-4008-1442-197866121591521-4008-2496-610.1515/9781400824960(CKB)1000000000788598(EBL)457844(OCoLC)436093947(SSID)ssj0000160060(PQKBManifestationID)12020197(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160060(PQKBWorkID)10181393(PQKB)11100963(SSID)ssj0000160059(PQKBManifestationID)11163376(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160059(PQKBWorkID)10181712(PQKB)11231264(MiAaPQ)EBC457844(OCoLC)52255380(MdBmJHUP)muse43008(DE-B1597)453538(OCoLC)979631677(DE-B1597)9781400824960(EXLCZ)99100000000078859820011016d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe funeral casino meditation, massacre, and exchange with the dead in Thailand /Alan KlimaCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20021 online resource (331 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-07459-3 0-691-07460-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-311) and index.pt. 1. The passed -- pt. 2. Kamma.The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death. The fieldwork for the book began in 1992, when a freewheeling market of illegal "massacre-imagery" videos blossomed in Bangkok on the very site where, days earlier, for the third time in two decades, a military-controlled government had killed scores of unarmed pro-democracy protesters. Such killings and their subsequent representation have lent force to Thailand's transition from military control to a "media-financial complex." Probing the ways in which death is marketed, visualized, and remembered through practices both local and global, Klima inverts conventional relationships between ethnography and theory through a compelling narrative that reveals a surprising new direction available to anthropology and critical theory. Ethnography here engages with the philosophy of activism and the politics of memory, media representation of violence, and globalization. In focusing on the particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present, this book unveils a vivid and haunting picture of community, responsibility, and accountability in the new world order.MassacresThailandViolence in mass mediaFuneral rites and ceremoniesThailandDeathReligious aspectsBuddhismMeditationBuddhismThailandPolitics and government1945-1988ThailandPolitics and government1988-MassacresViolence in mass media.Funeral rites and ceremoniesDeathReligious aspectsBuddhism.MeditationBuddhism.959.304/4Klima Alan1964-900960MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910172216503321The Funeral Casino2013711UNINA