Format:
VII, 302 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781496844125
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9781496844118
Content:
"Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound paranormal experience and may seem to achieve just that. They are part of the growing cultural phenomenon called legend tripping. In If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America, author Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl guides readers through an exploration of legend tripping, drawing on years of scholarship, documentary accounts, and his own extensive fieldwork. Poring over old reports and legends, sleeping in haunted inns, and trekking through wilderness full of cannibal mutants and strange beasts, Debies-Carl provides an in-depth analysis of this practice that has long fascinated scholars yet remains a mystery to many observers. Debies-Carl argues that legend trips are important social practices. Unlike traditional rites of passage, they reflect the modern world, revealing both its problems and its virtues. In society as well as in legend tripping, there is ambiguity, conflict, crisis of meaning, and the substitution of debate for social consensus. Conversely, both emphasize individual agency and values, even in spiritual matters. While people still need meaningful and transformative experiences, authoritative, traditional institutions are less capable of providing them. Instead, legend trippers voluntarily search for individually meaningful experiences and actively participate in shaping and interpreting those experiences for themselves"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496844132
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496844149
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496844156
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496844163
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Debies-Carl, Jeffrey S. If You Should Go at Midnight Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023 ISBN 9781496844163
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Das Übernatürliche
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Legende
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Reise
