Funeral Casino Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand

Name: Funeral Casino Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand
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ISBN: 9780691074603

ISBN-10: 0691074607

ISBN-13: 9780691074603

Edition: 2002

Authors: Alan Klima

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The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. The author offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death.

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.92" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations vii


Note on Transcription and Monetary Conversion ix


Acknowledgments xi



Introduction



The Passed



The New World: Bangkok and the World Order without History



Revolting History: The Necromantic Power of Public Massacres



Bloodless Power: A 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 Asceis and the Redemption of Mechanical Reproduction



The Funeral Casino: A Mindful Economy


Notes


Bibliography


Index