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… most congenial, productive and generally satisfying such event I’ve ever seen.” The conference was sponsored by …

… to understand the relations among Thailand’s complex past, cultural values, and political tensions, this book is …

… also locates this music in the deeply intermedial world of cultural production that predates the “classicization” of … was molded by the politics and aesthetics of upper-caste cultural nationalism, and certainly today, thrives as the …

… this, in turn, affects their interpersonal relations and cultural identification. Taking on crucial topics stirred by …

… and the University of Michigan. His research explores the cultural politics of popular religion in Thailand, the … of Bangkok professional spirit mediums, and the socio-cultural dynamics underlying claims to authority and charisma … including: “Contemporary Buddhism and Magic,” “The Cultural Politics of the Supernatural in Theravada Buddhist …

… talk, I consider their representations of physicality as a cultural response to a new kind of biopolitics that took … will also interrogate the extent to which the notion of cultural singularity can still be applied to …