Engaging the spirit world in modern Southeast Asia
"'The world today is as furiously religious as it ever was.' This quote from Peter Berger now appears to be undisputed in the contemporary social and cultural sciences. A look around the globe reveals that modernization does not necessarily lead to a decline of religion, neither in so...
| Other Authors: | Lauser, Andrea., Endres, Kirsten W. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Call Number: | BF1242.S644 E54 2011 |
| Institution: | Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak |
| Library: | Main Library |
| Record Id / ISBN-0: | ppap.52931 / 9780857453587 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Online Public Access Catalog: | Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak |
| Published: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
2011.
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| Series: |
Asian anthropologies ;
v. 5. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : multivocal arenas of modern enchantment in Southeast Asia / Kirsten W. Endres and Andrea Lauser
- Can things reach the dead? : the ontological status of objects and the study of Lao Buddhist rituals for the spirits of the deceased / Patrice Ladwig
- Spirited warriors : conspiracy and protection on Lombok / Kari Telle
- From the mystical to the molecular : modernity, martial arts and agency in Java / Lee Wilson
- Changing spirits' identities? : rethinking the four palaces' spirit representations in the context of social and political changes in northern Vietnam / Claire Chauvet
- Gods, gifts, markets, and superstition : spirited consumption from Korea to Vietnam / Laurel Kendall
- Contests of commemoration : virgin war martyrs, state memorials, and the invocation of the spirit world in contemporary Vietnam / Kirsten W. Endres and Andrea Lauser
- Trans-ethnic cosmologies that won't go away : keramat symbolisms in Malaysian capitalist sacralization / Beng-Lan Goh
- Being a spirit medium in contemporary Burma / Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière
- Reconfigurations of the manora ancestral worship and spirit possession in southern Thailand / Alexander Horstmann
- The horror of the modern : violation, violence, and the rampage of urban youths in the contemporary Thai ghost films / Pattana Kitiarsa.