Progress and its ruins: Ghosts, migrants, and the uncanny in Thailand

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 299-319

  Johnson, Andrew Alan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ghosts; Migration; Progress; Thailand; The uncanny; Urban space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877329417     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cuan.12005     Document Type: Article

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