| Title | Advice for the Apparitionally Challenged |
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| Subtitle | A Ghost (Hunter) Story |
| Contributor | Misty L. Bastian (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0361.1.04 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/living-with-monsters-ethnographic-fiction-about-real-monsters/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Misty L. Bastian |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2023-05-11 |
| Long abstract | Katie, a professional paranormal researcher (a.k.a. ghost hunter) comes to the house of an anthropologist, who undertakes research with paranormal investigators. This time, however, Katie is not a research subject but is there to investigate the anthropologist’s own house – which may or may not be haunted. In the course of the investigation, we learn about how paranormal researchers go about their business, about the relationship between researcher and research subject, and about the anthropologist and her ghosts. |
| Page range | pp. 51–66 |
| Print length | 16 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Misty L. Bastian is the Lewis Audenreid Professor of History and Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College. Her fieldsites include Nigeria, the USA, and the internet. She has researched mermaids, witches, Neo-Pentecostals, spirits, and ghost hunters, amongst many other topics. She is the author of numerous journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, as well as co-author (with Marc Matera and Susan Kingsley Kent) of The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).