In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand (Body, Commodity, Text)
“Traveling from spirit mediumship to the ethnography of the finance capital market,In the Place of Originscombines 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