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Spirited Histories Diana Espirito Santo

Spirited Histories By Diana Espirito Santo

Spirited Histories by Diana Espirito Santo


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Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranormal with technology, media, and history.

Spirited Histories Summary

Spirited Histories: Technologies, Media, and Trauma in Paranormal Chile by Diana Espirito Santo

Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranormal with technology, media, and history. Retrieving the past in places of trauma and death can take on many facets. One of these is an attention to hauntings, ghosts, and absences that go with the collective experience of loss and disappearance. People memorialize the dead and their stories in myriad ways. But what about the untold stories, or the forgotten, unnamed? This book explores the ways groups of Chilean paranormal investigators and ghost tour operators produce alternate histories using paranormal machinery, rather than simply theatricalizing pain. It offers a look at technologies, machines, and apparatuses - themselves imbued with a long history of supernatural and scientific expectations - and a social analysis of how certain groups of people marshal the voices of the dead to generate particular micro-histories. This fascinating volume will be of interest to a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, and scholars of technology and new media.

About Diana Espirito Santo

Diana Espirito Santo is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. She is co-editor of many volumes, including The Social Life of Spirits (2013) and author of Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo (2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1 Machines; 2 Noise; 3 Affect; 4 Aliens; 5 Play; Afterword

Additional information

NPB9780367691813
9780367691813
0367691817
Spirited Histories: Technologies, Media, and Trauma in Paranormal Chile by Diana Espirito Santo
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-08-10
240
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