1st Edition
Spirited Histories Technologies, Media, and Trauma in Paranormal Chile
By Diana Espírito Santo
Copyright 2023
240 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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. 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.... Read more
Introduction; 1 Machines; 2 Noise; 3 Affect; 4 Aliens; 5 Play; Afterword
Biography
Diana Espírito Santo is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica 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).
