Ghostly encounters : the hauntings of everyday life
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Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2016].
ISBN
9781439912881 (cloth : alk. paper), 1439912882 (cloth : alk. paper), 9781439912898 (paper : alk. paper), 1439912890 (paper : alk. paper)
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xi, 166 pages ; 21 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Adult Nonfiction - Public Shelving | 133.1 WAS | Checked Out | June 2, 2024 |
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Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2016].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781439912881 (cloth : alk. paper), 1439912882 (cloth : alk. paper), 9781439912898 (paper : alk. paper), 1439912890 (paper : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 ghosts, and the reasons people struggle with or against a will to believe. They present the variety and character of hauntings and ghostly encounters, outcomes of people telling haunted legends, and the nested consequences of ghostly experiences. 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Waskul, D. D. (2016). Ghostly encounters: the hauntings of everyday life . Temple University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Waskul, Dennis D., 1969-. 2016. Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life. Temple University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Waskul, Dennis D., 1969-. Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life Temple University Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Waskul, Dennis D. Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life Temple University Press, 2016.
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