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Can the subaltern speak? : reflections on the history of an idea
Introduction, by Rosalind C. Morris Part 1 Text "Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Part 2…
All Made Up: Performance Theory and the New Anthropology of Sex and Gender
- R. Morris
- Art
- 1995
This review considers the impact of recent performance theory, especially the theory of gender performativity, on anthropological efforts to theorize sex and gender. In brief, the theory of…
Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing the Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Thailand
- R. Morris
- Sociology
- 1 February 1994
In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand
- R. Morris
- History
- 21 April 2000
Acknowledgments vii Note on Transcription x Introduction 1 1 Writing, Exchange, Translation: A Poetics of the Modern 13 2 Ruin, or, What the New City Remembers 55 3 First, Forgetting 80 4 The…
Accidental Histories, Post-Historical Practice?: Re-reading Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance in the Actuarial Age
- R. Morris
- Art
- 1 July 2010
To read and reread Jean Comaroff's Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance today, more than two decades after its publication, is to be reminded of what historical anthropology can be, and to confront…
Consuming the margins : Northern Thai spirit mediumship and the theatrics of consumption in the age late capitalism
- R. Morris
- History
- 1994
In the Name of Trauma: Notes on Testimony, Truth Telling and the Secret of Literature in South Africa
- R. Morris
- History
- 2011
Early in her monumental novel, Middlemarch, George Eliot introduces a chapter with a quotation from an unnamed play, wherein two gentlemen exchange reflections on law and society. The first gentlemen…
Modernism's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand
- R. Morris
- Art
- 1 May 2000
funny thing happened on the way to the STET (the Stock Exchange of Thailand). In November 1997, I returned to Thailand amid a financial catastrophe that has since been labeled the Asian economic…
Giving Up Ghosts: Notes on Trauma and the Possibility of the Political from Southeast Asia
- R. Morris
- Political Science
- 1 February 2008
In Bao Ninh’s 1991 novel The Sorrow of War, ghosts of the Vietnam War dead return to trouble the dreams and the daytime moments of the living, appearing as soft corpses beneath the wheels of cars or…
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