Does a 'fragmentation premise' exist at contemporary sites in ruin and abandonment that can account for the 'haunted' character of the site? Does this fragmentation consist of both material and social memory from 'dividual' entities?
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Ontology, Performance Studies, Archaeological Method & Theory, Performance, and 11 moreSocial Ontology, Site-Specific Art, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Archaeological Methodology, Excavation Methodology, Haunting and Spectrality, Archaeological Excavation, Ruins, Modern Ruins, Archaeological excavations, and Ontological Turn
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Research Interests: Art Practice as Research, History and Memory, Performativity, Ghosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, and 9 moreMemory Studies, Cultural Memory, Performance and performativity, Commemoration and Memory, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Haunting and Spectrality, Theatricality and performativity, Hauntings, and Ghosts and Hauntings
This paper outlines a paradigm shift for the investigation of haunted spaces/places situated in performance-based research. It also suggests, based on a concept of haunting itineraries, that some haunting presences may be... more
This paper outlines a paradigm shift for the investigation of haunted spaces/places situated in performance-based research. It also suggests, based on a concept of haunting itineraries, that some haunting presences may be 'dividual-distributed personhood' who may haunt several different locations. It is also suggested that this type of haunting is a form of intangible cultural heritage.
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Public narratives of the past exist in multiple formats and in various disciplines, some of which are limited in narrative themes (History), while others are misinformed (Pseudo-archaeology). These limiting and misinformed narratives are... more
Public narratives of the past exist in multiple formats and in various disciplines, some of which are limited in narrative themes (History), while others are misinformed (Pseudo-archaeology). These limiting and misinformed narratives are frequently associated with particular contemporary social, economic, and political/paranormal motives. And there is also the ethnographic interpretation of a site, its archaeological remains in the present, and its different archives of embedded/attached memories that are associated with the location.
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A simple archaeological cautionary tale, as a warning and advise to those who investigate contemporary haunted ruins and sites of abandonment.
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Those mute objects and structures surveyed and unearthed during archaeological fieldwork do 'speak' stories of practices, setting, and social order, sometimes even 'disorder' amid ritual performance, related to the handling, production,... more
Those mute objects and structures surveyed and unearthed during archaeological fieldwork do 'speak' stories of practices, setting, and social order, sometimes even 'disorder' amid ritual performance, related to the handling, production, and distribution of objects and beliefs through time and space.
Research Interests: Performance Studies, Material Culture Studies, History and Memory, Performance Art, Heritage Conservation, and 8 moreIntangible cultural heritage, Performance, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Popular And Political Cultures Of Memory, Object Oriented Ontology, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, and Intangible Heritage
Research Interests: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Performance Studies, Material Culture Studies, Performance Art, and 15 moreHeritage Conservation, Ghosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Archives, Intangible cultural heritage, Performance, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Site-Specific Art, Object Oriented Ontology, Memory and materiality, Haunting and Spectrality, Archaeological Excavation, Cultural Heritage and Preservation, and Biography of Objects
Research Interests: Archaeology, Performance Studies, Performance Art, Ghosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, and 10 moreParanormal, Cultural Materialism, Historical Materialism, Object Oriented Ontology, Archaeological Methodology, Haunting and Spectrality, Paranormal Beliefs, Materiality, Perspectivism, and Vibrant Matter
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Place and Identity, Material Culture Studies, Space and Place, Ghosts, and 11 moreCultural History Of Ghosts, Social Media, Sense of Place, Object Oriented Ontology, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Material Culture, Haunting and Spectrality, Remembrance, Social Order, Memory and Remembrance, and Vibrant Matter
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Performance Studies, and 12 moreMaterial Culture Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Popular Culture, Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Performance, Site-Specific Art and Performance, Archaeological Excavation, Site Specificity, Archaeological excavations, Archaeological Excavation Methodology, and Site Specific Performance
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Cultural Sociology, Cultural Heritage, Phenomenology, and 11 moreGhosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Paranormal, Materiality (Anthropology), Social and Cultural History, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Phenomenology of Temporality, Memory and materiality, Haunting and Spectrality, Phenomenology of Time, and Spectrality
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Media Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Performance Studies, and 10 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Ghosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Paranormal, Site-Specific Art and Performance, Haunting and Spectrality, Paranormal Beliefs, Media Archeology, Paranormal Investigation, and Intermedial Studies
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Media Archaeology, Ghosts, and 10 moreCultural History Of Ghosts, Paranormal, Media, Media Research, Paranormal Beliefs, Media Archeology, Median History and Archaeology, Paranormal Phenomena, Research on Paranormal Phenomena, and Paranormal Investigation
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Cultural Heritage, Ghosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, and 11 moreCultural Tourism, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Paranormal, Haunting and Spectrality, Paranormal Beliefs, Paranormal Phenomena, Research on Paranormal Phenomena, Paranormal Investigation, Paranormal Belief, and Hauntings
Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Performance Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, and 11 morePerformance Art, Hauntology, Site-Specific Art, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Excavation Methodology, Archaeological Site Formation Processes, Haunting and Spectrality, Archaeological Excavation, Theatre and Performance, Archaeological excavations, and Archaeological Excavation Methodology
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Theory, Cultural History Of Ghosts, and 8 moreCultural Tourism, Paranormal, Archaeological Site Formation Processes, Haunting and Spectrality, Site Investigation, Paranormal Beliefs, Research on Paranormal Phenomena, and Paranormal Investigation
Research Interests: Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Archaeological Theory, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Sensory Ethnography, and 8 moreArchaeological Methodology, Site-Specific Art and Performance, Archaeology of the Senses, Excavation Methodology, Archaeological Site Formation Processes, Archaeological Excavation, Sensorial Anthropology, and Archaeological excavations
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Archaeology, Ghosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Social Media, and 11 moreParanormal, Archaeological Site Formation Processes, Haunting and Spectrality, Ruins, Parapsychology, Anthropology, Mediumship, Phenomenology, Spiritualism, Paranormal, Supernatural, Folklore, Religion, Sociology, Paranormal Beliefs, Paranormal Phenomena, Archaeology Memory History Palimpsests Materiality, Ghost Hunting Groups, Topophilia, and Paranormal Investigation
Research Interests: Cultural History, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Tourism, Archaeological Method & Theory, and 10 moreCultural History Of Ghosts, Architectural History, Performance, Site-Specific Art, Cultural Heritage Management, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Excavation Methodology, Haunting and Spectrality, Archaeological Excavation, and Archaeological excavations
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Archaeology, Performance Studies, Archaeological Method & Theory, Performance Art, and 7 moreStorytelling, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Archaeological Methodology, Site-Specific Art and Performance, Archaeological Excavation, The Historical Imagination, and Archaeological excavations
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Performance Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Performance Art, and 10 moreSite-Specific Art, Archaeological Theory, Sensory archaeology, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Archaeological Methodology, Site-Specific Art and Performance, Archaeological Excavation, Sensory Studies, Archaeological excavations, and The Uses of Archaeology
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Excerpt from my book, 'Ghost Culture Too' (2012).
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Excerpt from my book, "The Production of Haunted Space: Its Meaning and Excavation" (2013. Bedford: Ghost Excavation Books, Inc.).
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This is an excerpt from my book, 'Centralia, Pennsylvania: The Fiction that Fuels the Fire' (Ghost Excavator Books, Inc. Bedford, Pa. 2013).
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Ethnography, Popular Culture, and 12 moreGhosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Paranormal, Supernatural, Haunting and Spectrality, Paranormal Beliefs, Monsters, Ghosts, Haunting, Supernatural Folklore, Ghost Hunting Groups, Hauntings, Haunting Experiences, and Ghosts and Hauntings
Archaeological fieldwork has never been a completely successful experiment in 'working with' what remains of the past in the present. If "the present is made of all the remains of the past which are still surviving within the materiality... more
Archaeological fieldwork has never been a completely successful experiment in 'working with' what remains of the past in the present. If "the present is made of all the remains of the past which are still surviving within the materiality of our present time" Olivier (2019:15), one "stressing all kinds of processes of emergence" (Ibid:15), archaeology still has ruptures (not 'eruptions') in its knowledge production. It does this by narrowing the field of both inquiry and documentation of process by leaving 'remainders' in its exploration of archaeological space amid the avoidances of potential archaeological experience. The result is a profoundly inaccurate archaeological recreation (Bonnichsen 1973). If "the archaeological past is only the materiality of the present" (Olivier 2013), what happens if and when percolating sensory experiences occur in the field of play? Each archaeological present is always transforming its own version of the past because it only 'works with' particular remainders, not all that remains; and certainly not the sensory elements that may be still embedded in the archaeological strata. The memory of its 'normal' immersions into the presence of the past (its multiple articulations in the present) always have left remainders, reminders of what else that present presence of the past still offers. Archaeology continues to be 'elitist', as it leaves behind 'ghostly' remains in 'etic' footprints of its ephemeral occupations of past spaces.