Ghosts and their Relationship with the Age of a City

Cowdell, Paul

doi:10.1080/0015587x.2013.853516

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“…English Heritage's Haunted Heritage [J. Mason, 1999]), since they do not typically comprise narratives that 'contest' archaeological interpretationindeed, they can be seen to potentially help substantiate it (see also Cowdell, 2014). More recently, of course, heritage managers have been keen to incorporate participatory approaches in order to widen 'access' to heritage or get the public to contribute after citizen science models (see Carletti, 2016).…”

Section: Folklore and The Managed Pastmentioning

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Folklore and Public Archaeology in the UK

Paphitis

2019

Public Archaeology

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This paper presents the potential for folklore to enrich studies of, and participation in, public archaeology. Referring to the varied approaches to public archaeology in the United Kingdom, and focusing on sites and landscapes, it will lay out the current status of folklore in five key areas of public archaeology: the history of archaeology, multivocality, historical consciousness, the archaeological imagination/representation, and heritage management. This paper will explore how key thoughts and approaches in folkloristics might not only contribute to these areas, but can radically enhance how we look at public archaeology historically, dialogically, and interpretively. Alongside this, those countries with well-developed folkloristic and ethnological research departments might con-sider ways of expanding their approaches to public archaeology, and engage in cross-disciplinary research investigating the complex and multi-faceted relationships with and representations of the past in the present.

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Folklore and Public Archaeology in the UK

Paphitis

2019

Public Archaeology

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“…On today's perception of ghosts in vernacular culture see, for example,Bennett (1999) andThomas (2015). For more, see, for example,Cowdell (2014).…”

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Prague ghostlore of the late 19th century. Suburban ghosts between moral panic and vernacular spectacle

Janeček

2023

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In the mid-1870s, a wave of popular urban hauntings in public spaces swept across Europe. These included sightings of the Park Ghost in Sheffield in 1873 and the Westminster Christ Church Ghost in London in 1874. In early December 1874, probably the most famous Czech ghost, the Podskalí Apparition (Podskalské strašidlo), was born. This haunting was followed by that of similar but less popular ghosts that appeared in industrial, working-class Prague neighborhoods in 1876 and 1907, respectively. This paper analyzes newspaper articles from this period about these apparitions and their later depictions in Czech popular culture, and interprets these phenomena as local variants of the so-called “prowling ghosts”, a particular type of suburban phantom documented by current historiographical research on 19th-century ghostlore in England. The paper then describes how these Prague ghosts were utilized socially by two completely different cultural practices. On one hand, these hauntings were used by working-class people as vernacular spectacles and improvised festivities related to pranks, the symbolic occupation of public space, and Czech nationalism. For the middle classes and period newspapers loyal to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on the other hand, unruly mobs converging on the sites of supposed hauntings were a threat to established social norms and triggered both moral panics and public scorn of these “ghost hunters”. However, this attitude changed quickly when these events entered popular culture in the form of popular songs and, later, memoirs and literature. Between the Belle Époque at the First World War, these famous Prague hauntings were the staple for nostalgic longing in the last few decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Haunted by the memory of WWII: folklore, hauntology and the spectre of war in the Northern Norwegian landscape

Traa

2020

Time and Mind

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Ghosts and their Relationship with the Age of a City

Cited by 4 publications

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Folklore and Public Archaeology in the UK

Folklore and Public Archaeology in the UK

Prague ghostlore of the late 19th century. Suburban ghosts between moral panic and vernacular spectacle

Haunted by the memory of WWII: folklore, hauntology and the spectre of war in the Northern Norwegian landscape

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