{"product_id":"ghostly-encounters-9781439912881","title":"Ghostly Encounters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling. I am startled but not afraid. Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like this before (or since) and it fascinates me.Dennis Waskul writes these linesabout his first-hand experience with the supernaturalin the introduction to his beguiling book Ghostly Encounters. Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 midwestern Americans, the Waskuls' book is a reflexive ethnography that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings in everyday life. The authors explore how uncanny happenings become ghosts, and the reasons people struggle with or against a will to believe. They present the variety and character of hauntings and ghostly encounters, outcomes of people telling haunted legends, and the nested consequences of ghostly experiences.   Through these stories, Ghostly Encounters seeks to understand the persistence of uncanny experiences and beliefs in g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 The Trouble with Ghosts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Ghostly Reason\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Ghostly Topology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Ghostly Legends\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Ghostly Speculations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Methods and Data\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408311624023,"sku":"9781439912881","price":44.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439912881.jpg?v=1730502393","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ghostly-encounters-9781439912881","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}