The Ghost Excavation: An Ethnography of a Haunted Site

By John G. Sabol Jr.

It is proposed that the habits learned in pre-battle drill of the "culture of war", and the cultural patterns that were followed of the "culture of death" of mid-19th c. American Society became future manifesting possibilities (with purpose) on Civil War battlefields today. They form part of a habitual, culturally-patterned "normal" world that we can "unearth" in a "ghost excavation". This makes that world predictable and representative of continuing "signs" of forms of life on these battlefields. In this sense, haunting manifestations are habits about habits, and a "ghost soldier" is an emergence of a form of life that connects us today with their past beliefs and practices.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149423467X
• ISBN13: 9781494234676
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"