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Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural
From Animus to Zombi
- 219 pages
- English
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eBook - PDF
Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural
From Animus to Zombi
About this book
Taking a broad interpretation of "supernatural" to include anything beyond nature, Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural examines the liminality of often-overlooked types of supernatural beings in light of the themes of death and gender. It gives the reader a tour of the continents and takes them out into space, looking at popular culture and mythologies to propose answers to fundamental anthropological questions about humanity, the concept of "dead," and how we relate to our own genders when using the supernatural to understand them.
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Yes, you can access Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural by Rebecca Gibson,James M. VanderVeen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Korea: Zombies and Other Supernatural
- A (Wo)Man’s Touch
- China: Demonic Possession and Spiritual Vampires
- Gender, Death, and the Supernatural in The Untamed (Chen Qing Ling)
- Russia: Trans Rebirth
- A Real Woman is an Iceberg, and a Real Man is Made
- Australia: Aboriginal Vampires
- The Yara-ma-yha-who, “Real” Vampires, and Aboriginal Erasure
- The Caribbean: Animism and Why the Dead Walk at Night
- When Opposites Impact
- Afrofuturism: Astral Projection and Hyperempathy
- Dying to Live in Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Breonna Taylor’s America
- Death and Disability in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower
- Moving from the Real World to The Matrix: Cyborgs and the Supernatural Power of Love
- Bodies in Pods
- A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars, Jedi, and the Force
- Half Man, Half Machine
- The Imperial Radch: The Humanity of Corpse Soldiers
- “Blood Stays Inside Your Arteries, Dlique”
- After: What Comes Next?
- Afterword-Then and Now and After
- Index
- About the Editors and the Contributors