In the place of origins : modernity and its mediums in northern Thailand /
Modernity and its mediums in northern Thailand
Rosalind C. Morris.
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
- ix, 380 p. ; 24 cm.
- Body, Commodity, Text .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-370) and index.
Writing, exchange, translation; a poetics of the modern -- Ruin, or, What the new city remembers -- First, forgetting -- The appearance of order -- The secret of the dish -- Transmissions, or, the appearance of culture -- Representation: locality and the spirit of democracy -- Outside, eyeless, and on fire: the apotheosis of representation -- After all else: the end of mediumship?