The Funeral Casino
The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand by Alan Klima
English | 3 Mar. 2002 | ISBN: 0691074593 | 336 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 3 Mar. 2002 | ISBN: 0691074593 | 336 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death.