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Ghostly Encounters - The Hauntings of Everyday Life (Paperback)
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Ghostly Encounters - The Hauntings of Everyday Life (Paperback)
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"In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising
almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling.... I am startled but not
afraid.... Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like
this before (or since) and it fascinates me." Dennis Waskul writes
these lines-about his first-hand experience with the
supernatural-in the introduction to his beguiling book Ghostly
Encounters. Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71
midwestern Americans, the Waskuls' book is a reflexive ethnography
that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings in
everyday life. The authors explore how uncanny happenings become
ghosts, and the reasons people struggle with or against a will to
believe. They present the variety and character of hauntings and
ghostly encounters, outcomes of people telling haunted legends, and
the nested consequences of ghostly experiences. Through these
stories, Ghostly Encounters seeks to understand the persistence of
uncanny experiences and beliefs in ghosts in an age of reason,
science, education, and technology-as well as how those beliefs and
experiences both reflect and serve important social and cultural
functions.
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