Making Sense of the Paranormal
The Interactional Construction of Unexplained Experiences
This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of spiritual agency. The authors study recordings of paranormal research groups as they conduct real life investigations into allegedly haunted spaces and the analyses describe how, through their talk and embodied actions, participants collaboratively negotiate the paranormal status of the events they experience.By drawing on the study of the social organisation in everyday interaction, they show how paranormal interpretations may be proposed, contested and negotiated through conversational and embodied practices of…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Wooffitt, Robin
- ISBN: 978-3-030-88406-2
- EAN: 9783030884062
- Produktnummer: 38217755
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.3 cm 318 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 318
Über den Autor
Rachael Ironside is Senior Lecturer at Robert Gordon University, Scotland. Her research interests include social interaction and anomalous experience. She has also published more widely on the role of supernatural folklore and how it impacts our experience and understanding of place and cultural heritage. Robin Wooffitt is Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is interested in language, interaction, and anomalous experiences. He is author or co-author of eight books.
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