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Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory (Paperback)
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Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory (Paperback)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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This book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of
the social world and historical practice by theorising 'social
haunting': the ways in which the social forms, figures, phantasms
and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again.
Examining the relationship between historical practices such as
archaeology and archival work in order to think about how the
social landscape is reinvented with reference to the ghosts of the
past, the author explores the literary and historical status and
accounts of the ghost, not for what they might tell us about these
figures, but for their significance for our, constantly
re-invented, re-vivified, re-ghosted social world. With chapters on
haunted houses and castles, slave ghosts, the haunting airs of
music, the prehistoric origin of spirits, Marxist spectres,
Freudian revenants, and the ghosts in the machine, Ghosts,
Landscapes and Social Memory adopts multi-disciplinary methods for
understanding the past, the dead and social ghosts and the
landscapes they appear in. A sociology of haunting that illustrates
how social landscapes have their genesis and perpetuation in
haunting and the past, this volume will appeal to sociologists and
social theorists with interests in memory, haunting and culture.
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