{"product_id":"ethnography-9-9781478006213","title":"Ethnography 9","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this experimental ethnography, Alan Klima examines moneylending, gambling, funeral casinos, and the consultations of spirits and mediums to predict winning lottery numbers to illustrate the relationship between contemporary Thai spiritual and financial practices and global capitalism's abstraction of monetary value.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Alan Klima's ethnographic writing releases a middle zone, an in-between that haunts the kind of thought accreted by Euro-enlightenment. And it is beautifully done, unfolding, cascading, easing a shift in realism that starts by troubling a conventionally recognized real, material world and ends up dominated by the voice of a double, a possession. \u003ci\u003eEthnography #9\u003c\/i\u003e is an amazing and wonderful book by a masterful and compelling writer.” -- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of * The Hundreds *\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eEthnography #9\u003c\/i\u003e, ghosts dance with social theorists, and the spirit-possessed author juggles global financial tips along with winning lottery numbers. In Thailand after the financial crash, loan godmothers, gambling, and unhinging ghosts share the stage with World Bank prescriptions and market-hogging mega-marts. Alan Klima and his spirit familiar stage a wild experiment in telling the real by moving out of common sense.” -- Anna Tsing, coeditor of * Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEthnography #9\u003c\/i\u003e is not about Islam, but the book, the ethnography, the ethnographer, the possessed writer, and the haunted reader are all confronted by Islam in the very first instance, by its potential, its catastrophe, its capacities, and its ghosts.... Klima’s approach is meditative, soulful.” -- Tanzeen Rashed Doha * Milestones *\u003cbr\u003e“Klima’s brilliant, fantastically moving and seriously haunting book...[is] not just a book about numbers.... His is, in sum, the story of an uncertain present.” -- Gil Anidjar * Milestones *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEthnography #9\u003c\/i\u003e is, among so many things, a book about media, mediums, and mediation.... But where media scholars might talk about television as a window on the world, or about how media disrupts geography by binding near and far, Klima guides our attention to something else...a gothic ethnography of the screen.” -- Erica Robles-Anderson * Milestones *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Ghost Manifesto  1\u003cbr\u003e 2. World Gothic  46\u003cbr\u003e 3. Betting on the Real  65\u003cbr\u003e 4. Prove It  88\u003cbr\u003e 5. Regendered Debt  95\u003cbr\u003e 6. Men and Our Money  101\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Godfathers  114\u003cbr\u003e 8. It Has All Happened Before  124\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Return of the Dead  132\u003cbr\u003e 10. Reversing the Mount  140\u003cbr\u003e 11. Deterritory  145\u003cbr\u003e 12. Everywhere and Nowhere  149\u003cbr\u003e 13. The End of the World  157\u003cbr\u003e 14. Fossil  165\u003cbr\u003e Notes  171\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  177\u003cbr\u003e Index  181","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408979108183,"sku":"9781478006213","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478006213.jpg?v=1730504945","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethnography-9-9781478006213","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}