Naming chaos: Accident, precariousness, and the spirits of wildness in urban Thai spirit cults

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 766-778

  Johnson, Andrew Alan ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Migration; Occult Economy; Popular Religion; Southeast Asia; Spirit Cult; Thailand; Urbanity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868321198     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01394.x     Document Type: Article

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