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

March 25, 2015

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 […]
Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand (Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series)

March 25, 2015

Becoming the Buddha is the first book-length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or “new Buddha,” a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailand, an exploration that stands apart from standard […]
Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History (Acls History E-Book Project)

March 25, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$43.20 1597406066
Thailand Transformed: 1950-2012: "Is Thailand the Test Case? "

March 25, 2015

Is Thailand the Test Case for Asian Development? That is the issue that caught my imagination and attracted me to teach and research in Thailand in 1964 and it has caught my constant attention over the years to the processes that were applied to help that nation develop. the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development […]
Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (Anthropology of Asia)

March 25, 2015

Remembering is socially constructed through a range of social activities, ranging from rituals to political events. The social activities presented here are in the context of “crisis of modernity” experiences related to processes such as secularization, integration into the modern nation-state and global economy, and the expansion of the mass media. These processes are linked […]
National Identity and Its Defenders: Thailand Today

March 25, 2015

The first edition of this book was hailed as original and challenging in its analyses of Thai national identity. The topic is today no less worthy of discussion and comment. The essays boldly offer insights into the formation of Thai identity from the perspectives of history, political science, anthropology, linguistics, social psychology, human geography, and […]
Rice and Man: Agricultural Ecology in Southeast Asia

March 25, 2015

Agricultural Ecology/Anthropology in Southeast Asis Sale Price:$15.00 0824814657
Lords of Things

March 25, 2015

Lords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the […]
Louis and the King of Siam

March 25, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$43.48 0701121645
Reaching Across the Waters: Facing the Risks of Cooperation in International Waters (Directions in Development)

March 25, 2015

This volume reviews the experience of cooperation in five international river basins, focusing on the perceptions of risks and opportunities by decision makers in countries responding to a specific prospect of cooperation. For each basin, the analysis centered on tipping points, or periods in time when policymakers in the countries involved were faced with a […]

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