LEADER 04348nam 22008055 450 001 996200055903316 005 20190708092533.0 010 $a1-282-15915-1 010 $a1-4008-1442-1 010 $a9786612159152 010 $a1-4008-2496-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824960 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788598 035 $a(EBL)457844 035 $a(OCoLC)436093947 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000160060 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12020197 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160060 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10181393 035 $a(PQKB)11100963 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000160059 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11163376 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160059 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10181712 035 $a(PQKB)11231264 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457844 035 $a(OCoLC)52255380 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43008 035 $a(DE-B1597)453538 035 $a(OCoLC)979631677 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824960 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788598 100 $a20190708d2009 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Funeral Casino $eMeditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand /$fAlan Klima 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ : $cPrinceton University Press, $d[2009] 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-07459-3 311 $a0-691-07460-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [305]-311) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tNote on Transcription and Monetary Conversion -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter 1. Introduction -- $tPart I. The Passed -- $tChapter 2. The New World -- $tChapter 3. Revolting History -- $tChapter 4. Bloodless Power -- $tChapter 5. Repulsiveness of the Body Politic -- $tPart II. Kamma -- $tChapter 6. The Charnel Ground -- $tChapter 7. The Funeral Casino -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aMeditation$xBuddhism 606 $aDeath$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism 606 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$zThailand 606 $aViolence in mass media 606 $aMassacres$yThailand 607 $aThailand$xPolitics and government$y1988- 607 $aThailand$xPolitics and government$y1945-1988 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMeditation$xBuddhism. 615 0$aDeath$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism. 615 0$aFuneral rites and ceremonies 615 0$aViolence in mass media. 615 0$aMassacres 676 $a959.304 700 $aKlima$b Alan, $0900960 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996200055903316 996 $aThe Funeral Casino$92013711 997 $aUNISA