Silky Bodies and Nation-Making: Historical and Contemporary Practices of Caring for Silkworms in Thailand

Silky Bodies and Nation-Making: Historical and Contemporary Practices of Caring for Silkworms in Thailand

This article explores practices of raising domesticated silkworms and the embodied ethics that inform these ways of caring in northeast Thailand. Combining ethnography and historical analysis, I consider how both silkworms and the humans who raise and then kill them have experienced forms of "r...

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