Rosalind Morris

Rosalind Morris is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, where she has also served as Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her work focuses on questions of representation and translation in modernity, the politics of the mass media, the problem of the subject and the history of social theory. She is the author of In the Place of Origins: Modernity and its Mediums in Northern Thailand (2000), and The Camera and its Histories in East and Southeast Asia (forthcoming, February 2009).

Becoming Religious: The Reformation of Nationalism in Thailand

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Almost all representations of Thailand refer to it as Buddhist. The majority of its citizens identify themselves as practitioners of Theravada Buddhism, although a history of sectarian disputes within this strand of Buddhism has also provided an idiom for regional political movements. Today, the status of religion is changing. Debates about the constitutional formalization of … Read more