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1	The Haunted Self : Intersubjectivity and Collective Memory in First-Hand Eyewitness Accounts of Paranormal Experiences Caballero, Adelaida January 2012 (has links) The study of supernatural beliefs has been a major field in anthropology throughout its history. The study of paranormal experiences as such, however, has been largely left for folklorists to handle. This paper is an attempt to study the genesis, structure and interpretative schemes of narratives of paranormal experiences, specifically ghosts and hauntings, so that through the figure of the ghost (our perception of it, the ways in which we interact with it, how we read it and then talk about it) core experiences that turn non-believers into believers and believers into collectivities can become visible. Because experience is, for those who are said to have had paranormal encounters, what turns beliefs (or disbelief) into certainties, I have focused on theories that set experience and individual constructions of reality at the center of the actor-structure relation. My main purpose is to explore people’s narratives of alleged paranormal occurrences as they develop from individual experiences to cultural systems of legitimized meanings, in order to understand the processes that dynamically link micro and macro levels. I contend that a deeper understanding of all elements involved in the production of the personal-collective will further the development of better analytical tools to study the broad spectrum of cultural matter that escapes formal inquiry due to an old-yet-still-predominant divide between the objective and subjective, concrete and abstract, material and immaterial, public and private -dichotomies that lie at the very core of social and cultural theory. Through compelling analyses of ethnographic accounts on ghosts and the haunted I seek to reformulate the premises on which we understand this dilemma. ghosts paranormal supernatural spirits symbolic collective memory intersubjective Adelaida Caballero spöke paranormal övernaturlig andar kollektivt minne intersubjektivitet Adelaida Caballero fantasmas paranormal supernatural espíritus memoria colectiva intersubjetividad Adelaida Caballero
2	The child’s perspective of war and its aftermath in works of adult prose and film in Mexico and Spain Nickelson-Requejo, Sadie 01 June 2011 (has links) This dissertation investigates the literary and cinematic use of the child’s perspective to present the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War and their aftermath in several Mexican, Spanish, and international (Mexican-Spanish collaborative) narratives of the 20th and early 21st Centuries written by adult authors and filmmakers, and targeted for adult audiences. The Mexican narratives are Cartucho and Las manos de mamá by Nellie Campobello, Balún Canán by Rosario Castellanos, and Bandidos, a film by Luis Estrada; selected Spanish works are El espíritu de la colmena by Víctor Erice, Cría cuervos by Carlos Saura, and El sur by Adelaida García Morales; and both international works are films by Guillermo del Toro, El espinazo del diablo and El laberinto del fauno. I attempt to determine the textual or cinematic function of the child as first person (homodiegetic) narrative viewer in these works, and I study the different ways in which this child’s point of view is constructed in order to depict the overwhelming tragedy of war. I note patterns and diversities in subject matter presented by the narrative voice, and observe the characteristics of the child narrative viewer’s world and priorities (as presented by the authors and filmmakers), paying careful attention to how each perceives and understands his or her country’s violent upheaval and its aftermath. The theoretical framework of this investigation draws mainly from trauma theory, Gothic studies, and the tradition of the fairy tale. I illustrate how within the war narrative in addition to the author’s/filmmaker’s desire to recreate the sentiment that a child would evoke in adult readers and viewers, the child narrative viewer is employed for three main reasons: to play upon or against preexisting notions of the child’s innocence; to represent (possibly subversively) the nation; and as therapeutic means of returning to a paradise lost or creating a paradise never experienced. / text Children and war Child's perspective Child witness Mexican Revolution Spanish Civil War Nellie Campobello Rosario Castellanos Luis Estrada Víctor Erice Carlos Saura Adelaida García Morales Guillermo del Toro Cartucho Las manos de mamá My mother's hands Nine guardians Bandidos El espíritu de la colmena The Spirit of the beehive Cría cuervos Raise ravens El Sur The South El Espinazo del diablo The Devil's backbone El Laberinto del fauno Pan's labyrinth Spanish literature Mexican literature Campobello, Nellie, 1900-1986 Saura, Carlos, 1932- Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-

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The Haunted Self : Intersubjectivity and Collective Memory in First-Hand Eyewitness Accounts of Paranormal Experiences

The child’s perspective of war and its aftermath in works of adult prose and film in Mexico and Spain