1st Edition
Sensing Spirits Paranormal Investigation and the Social Construction of Ghosts
By Marc A. Eaton
Copyright 2021
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on ethnographic research, this book examines the paranormal investigation subculture in the US. Presenting interviews with investigators as well as extensive field observations, it explores their reasons for getting involved, their use of different investigative methods, the interpretive processes by which they individually and collectively ‘sense’ spirits, the ways in which these processes... Read more
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
Biography
Marc Eaton is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ripon College, USA and the co-editor of The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History.
