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The funeral casino : meditation, massacre, and exchange with the dead in Thailand

Author: Alan Klima
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alan Klima
ISBN: 0691074593 9780691074597 0691074607 9780691074603
OCLC Number: 48176721
Description: xii, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Passed: The new world: Bangkok and the world order without history --
Revolting history: The necromantic power of public massacres --
Bloodless power: the moral economy of the Thai crowd --
Repulsiveness of the body politic: an economics of the Black May Massacre --
Kamma: The Charnel Ground: visions of death in Buddhist ascesis and the redemption of mechanical reproduction --
The funeral casino: a mindful economy.
Responsibility: Alan Klima.
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