Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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In his book 'Cock Lane and Common-Sense', Andrew Lang explores the uneasy relationship between anthropology, folklore, and psychical research when it comes to abnormal experiences like ghosts, fire-walking, and crystal-gazing. While anthropology and folklore are willing to accept these phenomena as part of tradition and belief, they often reject modern first-hand accounts. Meanwhile, psychical research focuses on contemporary experiences but neglects the historical and traditional evidence. Lang argues that both fields should work together and consider all forms of evidence to fully understand these phenomena. As such, he attempts to do so in this book, which he concludes by calling for more scientific experimentation in exploring the origins of these beliefs.

Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040828977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243605675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Publisher:
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Category : Ghosts
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The edition benefits from full scholarly apparatus, including a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume. The set is broadly interdisciplinary and will appeal to those researching Social and Cultural History, History of Science, History of Religion, Literature and History of the Supernatural, as well as Early-Modern, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century History. It includes rare sources not available on ECCO, EBBO or Google Books. It takes a chronologically broad view of the history of the supernatural, from the Reformation to the twentieth century. The new editorial material includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume. Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original

Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985599017
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Excerpt: This letter to the dead is deposited in the tomb of the dead, and we may trust that the scribe was no longer annoyed by a Khou, which being instructed, should have known better. To take another ancient instance, in his Philopseudes Lucian introduces a kind of club of superstitious men, telling ghost stories. One of them assures his friend that the spectre of his late wife has visited and vexed him, because he had accidentally neglected to burn one of a pair of gilt shoes, to which she was attached. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author: Efram Sera-Shriar
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822988712
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He focuses on the importance of establishing credible witnesses of spirit and psychic phenomena in the writings of anthropologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Burnett Tylor, Andrew Lang, and Edward Clodd. The book draws on major themes, such as the historical relationship between science and religion, the history of scientific observation, and the emergence of the subfield of anthropology of religion in the second half of the nineteenth century. For secularists such as Tylor and Clodd, spiritualism posed a major obstacle in establishing the legitimacy of the theory of animism: a core theoretical principle of anthropology founded in the belief of “primitive cultures” that spirits animated the world, and that this belief represented the foundation of all religious paradigms. What becomes clear through this nuanced examination of Victorian anthropology is that arguments involving spirits or psychic forces usually revolved around issues of evidence, or lack of it, rather than faith or beliefs or disbeliefs.

Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781670656377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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"Cock Lane and Common-Sense" from Andrew Lang. Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology (1844-1912).

Author: James James Lowry Clifford
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452911564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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