In the Place of Origins
Subtitle: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand (Body, Commodity, Text)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780822325178
Subjects: Modernism; Social & cultural anthropology; Spirit communication & mediumship, spiritualism; Mediums; Chiang Mai Region; Sociology; Literature: Classics; Anthropology - Cultural; Asia - Southeast Asia; Channeling; Anthropology/Ethnography; Asian Studies; Cultural Studies; Ethnology; Thailand
First sentence: A wet nurse. A tutelary spirit bought from foreigners.