Haunting experiences : ghosts in contemporary folklore

Haunting experiences : ghosts in contemporary folklore /

"Ghosts and the supernatural appear throughout modern culture, in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts. Popular media's commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from what people believe about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Belief a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldstein, Diane E. (Author)
Other Authors: Grider, Sylvia Ann, Thomas, Jeannie B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Ghosts.
Haunted places.
Supernatural.
supernatural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Ghosts
Haunted places
Supernatural
Gespenstergeschichte
Volkskultur
Spuk
Geheimnisvolle Stätte
Geister > Motiv > Volksliteratur.
Volksliteratur > Motiv > Geister.
Computer network resources.
ghost stories.
Ghost stories
Ghost stories.
Histoires de fantômes.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Old spirits in new bottles
  • Part I. Taking ghosts seriously : The usefulness of ghost stories
  • Scientific rationalism and supernatural experience narratives
  • Part II. Narrating socialization and gender : Gender and ghosts
  • Children's ghost stories
  • Part III. Old spirits in new contexts : Haunted houses
  • The commodification of belief
  • Conclusion : The "spectral turn."

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