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| The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand | ||
| 作者 | Klima, Alan |
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| 出版日期 | 2002.02 |
| 頁次 | 336 |
| 出版者 | Princeton University Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://pup.princeton.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Princeton, NJ, US [普林斯顿, 紐澤西州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Available Through: Alibris; Brodart Company |
| 關鍵詞 | 死亡與臨終=Death & Dying; 臨終關懷=Terminal Care; 輪迴=Reincarnation=Samsara; 佛教儀軌=Buddhist Rituals; 禪修=Meditation; 泰國佛教=Thai Buddhism; |
| 摘要 | 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. 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 protesters. Such killings and their subsequent representation have lent force to Thailand's transition from military control to a "media-financial complex." Probing the ways in which death is marketed, visualized and remembered through practices both local and global, Klima inverts conventional relationships between ethnography and theory through a compelling narrative that reveals a surprising new direction available to anthropology and critical theory. Ethnography here engages with the philosophy of activism and the politics of memory, media representation of violence and globalization. In focusing on the particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present, this book unveils a vivid and haunting picture of community, responsibility and accountability in the new world order. |
| ISBN | 0691074593 |
| 點閱次數 | 325 |
| 建檔日期 | 2004.02.20 |
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