Edoardo Siani is assistant professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

"Political Divinations is an eloquent and risky (in all the best ways) ethnography of the place of magic in politics and everyday life in Thailand. Edoardo Siani moves beyond existing inadequate frameworks to develop a way of comprehending the links between the sacred and politics to contribute to religious studies, Buddhist studies, and Thai studies. What is exciting about the book is that Siani makes a call for readers to take diviners seriously—not to understand everyday religious practice of ordinary people—but to understand national politics. The ethnographic writing is eloquent and engaging. Combined with a bold methodology—becoming a practitioner of magic and the divine—this book unveils new views of politics, and new ways of thinking about how political life is made." - Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Edoardo Siani is assistant professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

"Political Divinations is an eloquent and risky (in all the best ways) ethnography of the place of magic in politics and everyday life in Thailand. Edoardo Siani moves beyond existing inadequate frameworks to develop a way of comprehending the links between the sacred and politics to contribute to religious studies, Buddhist studies, and Thai studies. What is exciting about the book is that Siani makes a call for readers to take diviners seriously—not to understand everyday religious practice of ordinary people—but to understand national politics. The ethnographic writing is eloquent and engaging. Combined with a bold methodology—becoming a practitioner of magic and the divine—this book unveils new views of politics, and new ways of thinking about how political life is made." - Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Edoardo Siani is assistant professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

"Political Divinations is an eloquent and risky (in all the best ways) ethnography of the place of magic in politics and everyday life in Thailand. Edoardo Siani moves beyond existing inadequate frameworks to develop a way of comprehending the links between the sacred and politics to contribute to religious studies, Buddhist studies, and Thai studies. What is exciting about the book is that Siani makes a call for readers to take diviners seriously—not to understand everyday religious practice of ordinary people—but to understand national politics. The ethnographic writing is eloquent and engaging. Combined with a bold methodology—becoming a practitioner of magic and the divine—this book unveils new views of politics, and new ways of thinking about how political life is made." - Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin–Madison