Marc A Eaton

Sensing Spirits

Paranormal Investigation and the Social Construction of Ghosts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on ethnographic research, this book examines the paranormal investigation subculture in the US. Presenting interviews with investigators, it explores their reasons for getting involved, the interpretive processes by which they 'sense' spirits, and the ways in which these processes are influenced by gendered and classed power dynamics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780367030384
• ISBN-10: 0367030381
• Artikelnr.: 59992814

Autorenporträt

Marc Eaton is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ripon College, USA and the co-editor of The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Getting into the Spirit 2. Learning the "Right" Ways to
Sense Spirits 3. Discerning Evidence of Spirits 4. Empersoning Spirits 5.
Emplotting Spirits 6. Making Sense of Sensing Spirits The Dead as Social
Objects and Actors Methodological Appendix