02555oam 2200505I 450 991038380850332120240424225723.01-4780-0621-81-4780-0711-7(CKB)4950000000162535(MiAaPQ)EBC5977952(OCoLC)1104860359(MdBmJHUP)muse799581123171529(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39617(EXLCZ)99495000000016253520191015d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEthnography #9 /Alan KlimaDurham :Duke University Press,2019.1 online resource (193 pages)1-4780-9020-0 1-4780-0544-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.The 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."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"--Provided by publisher.Financial crisesThailandSeancesThailandLotteriesThailandThailandEconomic conditionsFinancial crisesSeancesLotteries330.9593Klima Alan1964-900960NDDNDDBOOK9910383808503321Ethnography #92023158UNINA