ISBN13: | 9780367691837 |
ISBN10: | 0367691833 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 240 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Weight: | 453 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 11 Illustrations, black & white; 11 Halftones, black & white |
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Spirited Histories
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Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranormal with technology, media, and history.
Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranormal with technology, media, and history. Retrieving the past in places of trauma and death can take on many facets. One of these is an attention to hauntings, ghosts, and absences that go with the collective experience of loss and disappearance. People memorialize the dead and their stories in myriad ways. But what about the untold stories, or the forgotten, unnamed? This book explores the ways groups of Chilean paranormal investigators and ghost tour operators produce alternate histories using paranormal machinery, rather than simply theatricalizing pain. It offers a look at technologies, machines, and apparatuses ? themselves imbued with a long history of supernatural and scientific expectations ? and a social analysis of how certain groups of people marshal the voices of the dead to generate particular micro-histories. This fascinating volume will be of interest to a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, and scholars of technology and new media.
Introduction; 1 Machines; 2 Noise; 3 Affect; 4 Aliens; 5 Play; Afterword