Ghosts in the Head and Ghost Towns in the Field: Ethnography and the Experience of Presence and AbsenceABSENCEETHNOGRAPHYMEMORYMONTSERRATPRESENCETRAVEL WRITINGThis article is about an anthropologist coming to terms with the field and fieldwork. In 1995, I left - was evacuated from - my fieldsite ...
Myths In many of these old legends, told around the campfire or a roaring hearth, can be heard the approach of galloping horses, the whispers of phantoms in ghost towns, the far-off sounds of pistols blazing, and the sighing moans of the winds drifting through the ancient trees of huntin...
The pieces in this volume—seven short stories and one novella—are connected by a common theme and by a singular image. The theme is “voice.” From a story about a woman consciously trying to lower her voice to advance her career in broadcasting, to the tale of a father reluctant to ...
Further south, Northamptonshire is indelibly linked with the fate of Mary, Queen of Scots - whose beheading at the long demolished Fotheringay Castle launched what is, arguably, the busiest ghost in Britain upon the spectral landscape. Within the area's industrial heartland, you will find the a...
SOME NORTH WEST GHOST STORIES Smithill’s Hall The earliest record of habitation on the site is 1335 when William de Radcliffe built the great hall which is a typical Lancashire fortified manor house. In the 16th Century the hall passed by marriage to the Barton family and it was during the...
In 2003 we started photographing North Dakota ghost towns and abandoned places, first as a hobby and then, as a fascinating learning exercise. We learned about the Homestead Act that had settlers moving to the upper Midwest en masse, the railroads that built towns every eight miles along the ...
A friend of mine is walking (virtually) from the Freeport area to Disneyland in California. She posts her updates regularly and includes fun facts about the towns she is virtually walking through. The other day, while she was “in” Iowa, she was walking through an area that had strong ...
In 2003 we started photographing North Dakota ghost towns and abandoned places, first as a hobby and then, as a fascinating learning exercise. We learned about the Homestead Act that had settlers moving to the upper Midwest en masse, the railroads that built towns every eight miles along the ...
The Ghost in the Governor's Mansion The Miller Married a Witch The Hunter of Purgatory Mountain The Phantom Car The Thirsty Skull Mermaid Point The Headless Haint The Stubborn Piano Stories From the North Carolina Coast North Carolina's coast is filled with ghost stories and legends. Along the...
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