Date:
Location:
"Ethnography #9: The Ethnography of Haunting in Thailand"
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Speaker:
Alan Klima, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis.
Contact:
Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu
This seminar is cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Remote Access Information:
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Speaker Bio:
Alan Klima, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand. Currently Alan Klima’s research concerns the formation of “global moralities” and their political effects as they are furthered in and through local and national communities. In particular, he is concerned with the local application of global moralities of finance, including ideas and practices of debt, reason, and haunting in Thailand since the currency crash of 1997. His film Ghosts and Numbers and current ethnographic writing project, titled The Nextworld, concern local money-lending, gambling, and other irregular financial instruments among small-time local organizations in Thailand, including spirit-mediumship and other religious phenomena connected with money. He is also exploring what he calls "The Meditation Machine," a social biofeedback mechanism in which meditation practice is being reformulated in cultures of biomedicine and education.
