JSTOR

Alas Poor Ghost, ,

Author

Bennett; Gillian

Year

1999

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Type

BOOK

Category

Fiction

Language

English

Pages

240

ISBN

978-0-87421-278-5

Link

Last Update

27-Oct-2024

Keywords

Sociology

Description

Drawing on modern field research among elderly women in England and historical research in supernatural traditions, Gillian Bennett offers a clear and thought-provoking discussion of the vigorous survival, nature, and patterns of belief in the supernatural. Focusing on contact with the dead, which was especially emphasized and recounted by her informants, Bennett discusses the role of bereavement in these occurrences, examines how and why narratives are employed to account for personal experiences, and looks at case studies in the history of ghosts and visitations. Book jacket.

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