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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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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.
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"A repeated gesture, an aged object, a footprint….all of these things, material and immaterial, might drag something of the no longer now, the no longer live, into the present, or drag the present into the no longer now".  Rebecca... more
"A repeated gesture, an aged object, a footprint….all of these things, material and immaterial, might drag something of the no longer now, the no longer live, into the present, or drag the present into the no longer now".  Rebecca Schneider (2014:45). "But if there is such a thing as embodied history that replays in the present….be (it) a kind of living archaeology….? (Ibid: 60). "In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be 'seasoned with humanity'. Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows".  Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Archaeology from the Earth (1954).
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Excerpt from my book.
Excerpt from my book.
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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.).
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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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.
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Introduction Charles Baudelaire The Albatross Contents Vasilina Orlova ‘I am a Little Poetess with a Huge Bow:’ Female Poets in Contemporary Russia Maria Jacketti Late Drive through Hazleton, 2018 John Grey Four Poems Diarmuid ó... more
Introduction

Charles Baudelaire
The Albatross

Contents
Vasilina Orlova
‘I am a Little Poetess with a Huge Bow:’ Female Poets in Contemporary Russia

Maria Jacketti
Late Drive through Hazleton, 2018

John Grey
Four Poems

Diarmuid ó Maolalaí

Four Poems

Bob Ezergailis

Poem Sequence

Luigi Coppola

Six Poems

George F. MacDonald

Trip Report – Rio de Janairo, Brazil, and Beunos Ires, Argentina – October 22, 1986 to November 2, 1986.
Post Scriptum

John G. Sabol

‘Surfing’ the Surface of Time in Archaeological Space:
Exploration, Performance, Memory, and ‘Haunting’
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Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Ethnography, Landscape Archaeology, Phenomenology, and 32 more
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