Klima Alan Klima

Ethnography #9 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

As Alan Klima writes in Ethnography #9, "e;there are other possible starting places than the earnest realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought."e; In this experimental ethnography of capitalism, ghosts, and numbers in mid- and late-twentieth-century Thailand, Klima uses this provocation to deconstruct naive faith in the "e;real"e; and in the material in academic discourse that does not recognize that it is, itself, writing. Klima also twists the common narrative that increasing financial abstractions in economic culture are a kind of real horror story, entangling it with other modes of abstraction commonly seen as less "e;real,"e; such as spirit consultations, ghost stories, and haunted gambling. His unconventional, distinctive, and literary form of storytelling uses multiple voices, from ethnographic modes to a first-person narrative in which he channels Northern Thai ghostly tales and the story of a young Thai spirit. This genre alchemy creates strange yet compelling new relations between being and not being, presence and absence, fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and reality. In embracing the speculative as a writing form, Klima summons unorthodox possibilities for truth in contemporary anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478007111
• Artikelnr.: 66282542

Autorenporträt

Alan Klima

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
1. The Ghost Manifesto  1
2. World Gothic  46
3. Betting on the Real  65
4. Prove It  88
5. Regendered Debt  95
6. Men and Our Money  101
7. The Godfathers  114
8. It Has All Happened Before  124
9. The Return of the Dead  132
10. Reversing the Mount  140
11. Deterritory  145
12. Everywhere and Nowhere  149
13. The End of the World  157
14. Fossil  165
Notes  171
Bibliography  177
Index  181