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Ghost Mothers: Kinship Relationships in Thai Spirit Cults |
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Johnson, Andrew Alan (著)
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| Source |
Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology
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| Volume | v.60 n.2 Summer |
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| Date | 2016 |
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| Pages | 82 - 96 |
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| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
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http://www.berghahnbooks.com/
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| Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Vol. 60, No. 2, Special Section: (De)Materializing Kinship: Holding Together Mutuality and Difference |
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| Keyword | ghosts; gift exchange; kinship; popular religion; Thailand; violence |
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| Abstract | This article examines the process of building kinship relations between Thai spirit devotees and violent spirits. I examine three spirit shrines on the outskirts of Bangkok: a shrine to the ghost of a woman killed in childbirth, a shrine to a cobra spirit that causes accidents along a busy highway, and a household shrine to an aborted fetus. The devotees to whom I spoke actively sought out such places known for death in order to 'adopt' or 'become adopted by' the spirits in those locations—an action that, I argue, allowed for a renegotiation of the devotees' position vis-à-vis accident and trauma. I suggest that becoming a spirit's 'child' forms a mutually dependent relationship that allows for the domestication of forces outside of oneself. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 82
Kinship with the Other 84
Pong and Grandmother Nak 87
Gamrai and Mother Cobra 88
Pia and the Golden Child 89
A Kinship with Death 90
Loving Kindness 92
Acknowledgment 93
Notes 94
References 95 |
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| ISSN | 0155977X (P); 15585727 (E) |
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| Hits | 170 |
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| Created date | 2023.11.23 |
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| Modified date | 2023.11.23 |
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