TY - BOOK ID - 61418504 TI - Ethnography #9 PY - 2019 SN - 1478007117 1478006218 1478005440 1478090200 9781478006213 9781478007111 PB - Durham : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Financial crises KW - Seances KW - Lotteries KW - Thailand KW - Economic conditions. KW - Gambling KW - Meetings KW - Spiritualism KW - ghosts KW - financial crash KW - immaterialism KW - fiction KW - ethnography KW - Northern Thailand UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61418504 AB - "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 performing the very objectivity and realism that it claims as its method, Klima instead embraces a distinctive literary form of storytelling that hovers between being and not being, presence and absence, fiction and non-fiction, and fantasy and reality"-- ER -