Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand

BOOK INFOPaper over Board, 9 X 13 In. / 142 Pages / 75 Color PhotographsISBN 9781942084433List Price: $45.00 “Compassionate without being sentimental, Allen’s photographs challenge our conceptualization of gender, and serve as a counternarrative to the often sensational and exploitative depictions of transgender lives in the media.”, - Aperture, December 15, 2017  "...a study of liminal spaces; between genders, between countries, between past and present, and even between this world and the next.",- Musee Magazine, December 13, 2017 Also featured by Smithsonian Magazine Hyperallergic International Business Times  Photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen Foreword by Zackary Drucker Contributions by Eli Coleman  In collaboration with Dr. Eli Coleman, professor and director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota, Transcendents studies the phenomenon of gender variance among the spirit cults of Burma and Thailand. This book combines a raw, personal, photographic sta