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"ETHNOGRAPHY #9 looks at Thai spiritual and financial practices, and at the relationship of these local practices to global capitalism's abstraction of monetary value. Through his examination of moneylending, gambling, funeral casinos, and the consultation of spirits and mediums to predict winning lottery numbers, Alan Klima challenges the assumptions of anthropology's "ontological turn" and reveals the limitations of theoretical explanations of capitalist fantasy that are grounded in the rational and the "real." Looking critically at the work done by conventional ethnographic writing in…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2019Duke University Press · 182 pages · 9781478005445
Financial crisesGeisterglaubeKulturanthropologieSeancesLotteriesEconomic conditionsNumerologieLotterie