In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand

by Rosalind C. Morris

In the Place of Origins tells the tale of modernity in Northern Thailand, discerning its oblique signs in the performances of contemporary spirit mediums. In a world driven by the twin fantasies of pastness and newness, Rosalind C. Morris reveals that spirit mediumship is not simply a theater of atavistic tendency but an arena in which it is possible to read the relationships between new forms of representation and subjectivity, as well as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325179
• ISBN13: 9780822325178
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.3"