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Dennis Waskul - Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life - 9781439912881 - V9781439912881
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Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life

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Description for Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life Hardback. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; JHM; VXQG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3760 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439912881
SKU
V9781439912881
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About Dennis Waskul
Dennis Waskul is a Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Minnesota State University Mankato, and has served as president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He has authored or co-authored several books including Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body (with Phillip Vannini), The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society (with Phillip Vannini ... Read more

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