The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand

by Alan Klima (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $49.11

  Offers an interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death. This book focuses on a particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present and unveils a picture of community, responsibility, and accountability in the world order.