ISBN:
9780691074603
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (331 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Funeral Casino : Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand
DDC:
306.909593
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 pr
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Transcription and Monetary Conversion; Acknowledgments; 1. INTRODUCTION; PART I: The Passed; 2. THE NEW WORLD: Bangkok and the World Order without History; 3. REVOLTING HISTORY: The Necromantic Power of Public Massacres; 4. BLOODLESS POWER: The Moral Economy of the Thai Crowd; 5. REPULSIVENESS Of The Body Politic: An Economics of the Black May Massacre; PART II: Kamma; 6. THE CHARNEL GROUND: Visions of Death in Buddhist Ascesis and the Redemption of Mechanical Reproduction; 7. THE FUNERAL CASINO: A Mindful Economy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C
Description / Table of Contents:
DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1515/9781400824960
