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Are ghosts real?
\"Presents famous ghost stories and briefly examines the claims, ultimately stating there is no hard proof of ghosts\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ghostly prisons
They say that violent deaths beget vengeful spirits refusing to rest in peace. Anne Boleyn was beheaded with a single stroke of a sword at the Tower of London in 1536. After that vicious execution, some say she still roams the Tower grounds! Similar disturbing accounts of historical prisons around the world abound in this spine-tingling and highly motivating work. A world map, vivid photographs, and stimulating sidebars further encourage readers to understand more about the history, geography, and culture involved in each prison s unique story. Full-Color Photographs, Further Information Section, Glossary, Index, Maps, Sidebars, Websites.
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The phantom image : seeing the dead in ancient Rome
How could something as insubstantial as a ghost be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint? In this original and wide-ranging study, Patrick R. Crowley uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of the afterlife more generally, these images ultimately show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image will be essential for anyone interested in ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image.
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Ghost Representation : a Study of Bodily Ghosts and Materialisation of Mind and Body in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Female Writers' Ghost Fiction
This thesis studies the fictional ghosts created by the four writers in their ghost fiction, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charlotte Riddell. It aims to clarify two things: how these four writers create physical bodies of fictional ghosts and how their physical bodies materialise the contemporary scientific ideas on human body. Each chapter examines various 'embodiments' of ghosts through close reading of each text, particularly paying attention to the ways the ghosts manifest their bodily forms, or in some cases the ways they foreground physical significance and properties. The thesis explores the literary works of ghost or ghostly fiction that ranges from a novel to the stories published in periodicals and magazines over the period between 1840s and 1880s, while suggesting a cultural shift in the representation of fictional ghosts that runs parallel with the scientific shift of interest in mind and body from the physiological to the psychological.
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The Anthropology of Religion, Charisma and Ghosts
It has been said that Chinese government was, until the republican period, government through li. Li is the untranslatable word covering appropriate conduct toward others, from the guest rituals of imperial diplomacy to the hospitality offered to guests in the homes of ordinary people. It also covers the centring of self in relation to the flows and objects in a landscape or a built environment, including the world beyond the spans of human and other lives. It is prevalent under the republican regimes of China and Taiwan in the forming and maintaining of personal relations, in the respect for ancestors, and especially in the continuing rituals of address to gods, of command to demons, and of charity to neglected souls. The concept of `religion' does not grasp this, neither does the concept of `ritual', yet li undoubtedly refers to a figuration of a universe and of place in the world as encompassing as any body of rite and magic or of any religion.
Through studies of Chinese gods and ghosts this book challenges theories of religion based on a supreme god and that god's prophets, as well as those like Hinduism based on mythical figures from epics, and offers another conception of humanity and the world, distinct from that conveyed by the rituals of other classical anthropological theories.
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