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A sophisticated, wide-ranging, theoretical account of how spirit mediums mediate the Thai experience of capitalist modernity.

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 new...

Collection of essays on the history of photography in Southeast Asia and East Asia that emphasize the ethnographic uses of the medium.

Collection of essays on the history of photography in Southeast Asia and East Asia that emphasize the ethnographic uses of the medium.

Do the relentless media images of the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq convey a tangible picture of the human reality involved? Do they obstruct rather than bring into view the post-9/11 world? This title describes a world in which our everyday reality is sealed off from the fact of war, despite the prevalence of media imagery.