In the Place of Origins

"With this astutely conceived and exquisitely written account of the complexities of mediumship in Thai modernity, Rosalind Morris has taken ethnographic practice to a whole new level of theoretical as well as descriptive sophistication. It is a dazzling accomplishment."--Rey Chow, University of California, Irvine "Travelling from spirit mediumship to the ethnography of the finance capitalmarket, "In the Place of Origins" combines theoretical bravura with brilliant narrative skill. As it comments on ethnographic self-fashioning in Thailand, it also examines the mediumship of disciplinary ethnography, and the alterity it so anxiously seeks to expell. This is a text of dazzling instructive simplicity."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

Acknowledgments

vii

Note on Transcription

x

Introduction

1

(12)

Writing, Exchange, Translation: A Poetics of the Modern

13

(42)

Ruin, or, What the New City Remembers

55

(25)

First, Forgetting

80

(27)

The Appearance of Order

107

(43)

The Secret of the Dish

150

(31)

Transmissions, or, the Appearance of Culture

181

(59)

Representations: Locality and the Spirit of Democracy

240

(47)

Outside, Eyeless, and on Fire: The Apotheosis of Representation

287

(45)

After All Else: The End of Mediumship?

332

(19)

Bibliography

351

(20)

Index

371

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