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Ghostly encounters the hauntings of everyday life /

Dennis Waskul writes these lines about his first-hand experience with the supernatural in 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 exper...

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Main Author: Waskul, Dennis D., 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2016]
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xi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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