Vampires, Burial, and Death (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2010-04-20
Förlag
Yale University Press
Illustrationer
ill
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 20 mm
Vikt
250 g
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1
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,
ISBN
9780300164817

Vampires, Burial, and Death

Folklore and Reality; With a New Preface

av Paul Barber
Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-04-20
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In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. This studys comprehensiveness and the authors bone-dry wit make this compelling reading, not just for folklorists, but for anyone interested in a time when the dead wouldnt stay dead.Booklist Barbers inquiry into vampires, fact and fiction, is a gem in the literature of debunking [and] a convincing exercise in mental archaeology.Roy Porter, Nature A splendid book about the undead, illuminated by the findings of morbid anatomy. The main value of this most interesting book is to remind us how far we have come in our ability to explain the world and how this has released us from at least some terrors.Anthony Daniels, Spectator This book is fascinating reading for physicians and anthropologists as well as anyone interested in folklore.R. Ted Steinbock, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association A fascinating and pain-staking (sorry!) thesis, which welds together folklore, epidemic panic, communal stupidity, and forensic and funereal science.Huw Knight, New Scientist
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"A stimulating, authoritative discourse on the relationship between the historical concepts of vampires in folklore and fiction across the ages and throughout the world."Library Journal "Barber, a specialist in German language and folklore who has a faintly ghoulish sense of humour, has written a splendid book about the undead, illuminated by the findings of morbid anatomy. . . . The main value of this most interesting book is to remind us how far we have come in our ability to explain the world and how this has released us from at least some terrors."Anthony Daniels, The Spectator "Since this is essentially a scholarly work on human decomposition and historical attitudes to it, it is remarkable how often Paul Barber manages to be funny. . . . His insights, medical and cultural, hold a chastening fascination."Hugh Barnacle, Independent "A pioneering work on the role of medicine in unraveling the mysteries of the supernatural. Breaking new ground, it belongs among the significant studies of folklore."Felix J. Oinas, Indiana University

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Paul Barber is a research associate at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA.

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