Ghosts: CFP for AAA 2025 in New Orleans
Celebrating the ghost of the Maid of Orleans, New Orleans, 2023. Photo David Beriss. The time has come to plan and submit sessions for the 2025 American Anthropology…
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CFP: 13 Ghosts of Multimodality
CFP: AAA 2025 13 Ghosts of Multimodality: Critiquing, Rejecting and Learning to Live with Multimodality’s Problems Panel Organizer: Samuel Collins (scoll…
Ghostly Encounters on Google: Spirit Photography, Reverse Image Search and Urban Critique in Baltimore
In 1866, Alfred Russell Wallace proclaimed a “new branch of anthropology” premised on the Spiritualist movement that was then exploding in popularity in England. For Wallace, that anthropology…
Mobilizing Cemeteries, Representing Ancestors: The Infrastructure of Protest and the Anti-Petroleum Complex Movement in Pengerang, Malaysia
Resisting the “Rotterdam Port of the East” In 2011, the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, and the CEO of the national oil company Petronas, Shamsul Azhar Abbas,…
Carrie Clanton takes the page 99 test
My PhD thesis, Uncanny Others: Hauntology, Ethnography, Media, started out as an ethnographic study of people who pursue ghosts as a hobby in the U.K. As a visual…
Ghosts in the Machine: On losing control to the technoscape
“There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code that have grouped together to form un-expected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free…
What Do Ghosts (and Ghost Hunters) Want?
Ghost hunting can be about sensational connections with spirits. It can also be a form of care and consolation, and not only for the ghosts. It was a…
Damsels & Demons: Women in Horror Part I
By Emma Louise Backe Each culture suffers from its own hauntings. We perform ceremonies to guide the ghosts back to their graves and lay out offerings of food…
Frightening Fictions: Lore Podcast Review
By Emma Louise Backe Journalists are widely speculating that we live in the “Golden Age” of podcasts, ushered in by the success of podcasts like Serial or Invisibilia.…
‘Are Religion and Science in Conflict?’
Scientific investigation could have revealed that our universe is full of meaning and purpose. It could have told us that we are at the centre of the…