John G. Sabol Jr.

Phantom Gettysburg (eBook, ePUB)

Alternative Histories on a Civil War Battlefield

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Phantom Gettysburg discusses the contemporary alternative version of a perceived haunted battlefield. In order to understand this alternative perception, contemporary anomalous phenomena must be affixed to and analyzed within their exact historical setting and social context.

An ethnographic model of mid-19thc. American culture is used as the basis for this analysis. Specifically, the cultural beliefs relative to the concepts of death and the afterlife, as it was envisioned by these soldiers, is the basis for this model. This historical ethnographic analysis serves two purposes. First, it is a means to legitimize the methodology and fieldwork practices of ghost research. Second, it is meant to analyze the Gettysburg experience and its haunting uncertainty in its historical and sociocultural environment.

The conclusion that is drawn from this comparative approach alters the reality and representation of an interactive ghostly battlefield presence. A Gettysburg haunted by Civil War soldiers is considered, for the most part, a phantom experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781467845052
• Artikelnr.: 52483882

Autorenporträt

John Sabol is a cultural anthropologist, historical archaeologist, actor, and "ghost excavator". He has been participating in (and directed) scientific field investigations since high school. He has conducted extensive non-evasive ghostexcavations on the Gettysburg battlefield and in the town for a number of years. He is the author of three other books on Gettysburg: Gettysburg Unearthed (2007), Battlefield Hauntscape (2007), and the Politics of Presence (2008). He has written four other books: Ghost Excavator (2007), Ghost Culture (2007), Anthracite Coal Region (2008), and Bodies of Substance, Fragments of Memories (2009). He has appeared in the A&E TV series, "Paranormal State", "Ghosts of Gettysburg" episode. For more information on his investigations and books, please see his websites: www.theghostexcavator.com and http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeoqapc/ghostexcavator.