Ethnography #9

by Alan Klima

Book Overview

As Alan Klima writes in Ethnography #9, "there are other possible starting places than the serious realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought." 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 "real" and in the material in academic discourse that does not recognize that it is, itself, writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006218
• ISBN13: 9781478006213
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"