Ghost Culture: Theories, Context, and Scientific PracticeAuthorHouse, 21.06.2007 - 176 Seiten This book is part of a series of ethnographic studies in cultural hauntings and ghostly landscapes. The first book, Ghost Excavator: Unearthing the Drama in the Mine Fields, was a personal excavation of the haunted Mahanoy Area. In this second book, a theory of cultural hauntings is presented that serves as a framework for investigative fieldwork. Specific techniques are introduced as a means of scientific practices to evaluate the data observed and recorded at haunted locations. This book is meant to form the infrastructure of a developing ghost science, one built from the "bottom-up". The integrated symmetrical approach of theory and scientific practice that is outlined here is a beginning point for the continuing evolution of the ghost science of the future. This search and analysis of haunting phenomena is seen as an approach that can be participated in by the many and who, through their continuing efforts, will help fill-in the "blanks" of a "ghost map" of what Shakespeare has called the "undiscover'd country". |
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ambient environment analysis and/or anomalous sensory manifestations anthropology archaeological associated aural communication concept contemporary space continue cultural context elements emic Ethnoarchaeoghostology ethnographic etic events and activities evidential excavations rehearsals experience field investigation fieldwork framed Ghost Excavator ghost hunting ghost investigation ghost map ghost research ghost science ghost script ghostly ghosts and hauntings habitual activity haunt drama haunted location haunted space haunting behavior haunting phenomena hauntscape historical present human individual infrasound interactive entity interactive ghost interpretation investigative performance investigative process investigative team involves Loren Eiseley material remains matrix means mediation memory methodology modes of engagement narrative observed and recorded occur parameters past drama patterns performance-based activities peripatetic audio-video peripatetic video recordings photographic physical space proxemic re-contextualized recall recording and measuring representation residual residual haunting resonating scientific practice site’s social soundmarks soundscape specific structure survey symmetrical space techniques trigger objects understanding video overlays visual zone
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Seite vii - Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color; and at the same time the concrete of all colors, is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows - a colorless, all-color of atheism...