Matt Tomlinson on his book, Speaking with the Dead
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speaking-with-the-dead-an-ethnography-of-extrahuman-experience/ Kristina Wirtz: Congratulations on this lovely book, Matt! It is a fascinating and empathetic ac…
Tag: spiritualism
Anthropology’s Seen and Unseen
In 1866, Alfred Russel Wallace sent a breathless letter to his friend and colleague, Thomas Huxley, inviting Huxley to join him in exploring a “new branch of anthropology”:…
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…
Erin Yerby take the page 99 test on her dissertation
On page 99: “Spiritualism troubles the separation between here and there: as modern, western and mostly ‘white,’ but also because Spiritualists inhabit the problematic prejudices of modernity as…