This book offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America, and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires. It will benefit scholars and students of popular culture, film and media studies, horror,...Daugiau...
This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ufological absurd, nonsensical instances for their experiencers in which there is no conceptual way out....Daugiau...
Monsters are culturally meaningful across the world. Starting from this key premise, this book tackles monsters in the context of social change....Daugiau...
The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits and attempts to map the religious landscape of ancient China. The main focus of attention is the character gui , an essential key to the understanding of spiritual beings....Daugiau...
This volume explores the spectral qualities of space, using the language of hauntings, to understand how absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something (that once was, and still is) there. Contributors na...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1978 Sea Serpents, Sailors and Sceptics looks at stories of folklore and mythology which have fascinated sailors from antiquity to the modern day. The book provides a concise survey and review of the subject of ocean folklore...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Jan-2015, Leidėjas: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781315427614)
In Haunted Heritage, author Michele Hanks draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork to delve into the anthropological, sociological, political, historical, and cultural factors that drive the burgeoning business of ghost or paranormal tourism....Daugiau...
Fired by the imagination a new vision of Atlantis has arisen over the last one hundred and fifty years as a lost utopia. Rodney Castleden discusses why this picture arose and explains how it has become confused with Platos genuine account....Daugiau...
