Rosalind C Morris

In the Place of Origins

Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Traveling from spirit mediumship to the ethnography of the finance capital market, "In the Place of Origins" combines theoretical bravura with brilliant narrative skill. As it comments on ethnographic self-fashioning in Thailand, it also examines the mediumship of disciplinary ethnography, and the alterity it so anxiously seeks to expell. This is a text of dazzling instructive simplicity."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 150mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325178
• ISBN-10: 0822325179
• Artikelnr.: 22174329

Autorenporträt

Rosalind C. Morris is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography, and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Note on Transcription x
Introduction 1
1 Writing, Exchange, Translation: A Poetics of the Modern 13
2 Ruin, or, What the New City Remembers 55
3 First, Forgetting 80
4 The Appearance of Order 107
5 The Secret of the Dish 150
6 Transmissions, or, the Appearance of Culture 181
7 Representations: Locality and the Spirit of Democracy 240
8 Outside, Eyeless, and on Fire: The Apotheosis of Representation 287
9 After All Else: The End of Mediumship? 332
Bibliography 351
Index 371