“You may not believe, but never offend the spirits”: Spirit-medium cults and popular media in modern Thailand

Global goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 160-176

  Kitiarsa, Pattana ^a  

^a SURANAREE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

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