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...Ghosts of Indians ...

... This chapter surveys some Western and Indigenous perspectives on haunting to consider how one might study ghosts. What is to be done about the presence of ghosts? Is haunting something that can or should be minimized or overcome, or is it a permanent condition? How can we distinguish between...

... One night in 2009, an Aboriginal poet was haunted by a dead anatomist who cut through her body with a scalpel. This story is related not as a freak event but as a reflection of the general condition of scientific research in postcolonial times. Theories of haunting have proposed that ghosts...

..., 1998), 17. The more supernatural disturbances of “Believe in Ghosts!” are considered further and well beyond the years of the Civil War in Daniel Cottom, Abyss of Reason: Cultural Movements, Revelations, and Betrayals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), especially “The Experience...