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The Politics of Presence - Haunting Performances on the Gettysburg Battlefield (Paperback)
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The Politics of Presence - Haunting Performances on the Gettysburg Battlefield (Paperback)
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Loot Price R500
Discovery Miles 5 000
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A major focus of ghost excavation, as opposed to ghost "hunting,"
is an archaeology of experience. The emergence of this experience
is unearthed through the investigative engagement of haunted space.
One aspect of this engagement is performance, which requires a
specific sociocultural and historical context of understanding.
This context of understanding must be understood in terms of layers
of meaning. Gettysburg is used as a specific example of the use of
performative and dramatical activity. Each of these activities
performed at Gettysburg predisposes a genre, a set of beliefs,
practices, social relations, manifestations, and locations which
together define categorically what it is that is manifesting on the
battlefield, and what interpretations are being used to understand
these performative cultural practices. The genres of performative
action at Gettysburg are important because they are located at
places on the battlefield where belief systems become mobilized
into actual practice. This book will explore various haunting
uncertainties and cultural situations associated with ghostly
activity, and the implications of these performances as they are
enacted by ghost hunters, Civil War re-enactors, the tourism
industry, and the "ghosts" themselves.
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