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Paranthropology 5:3

Paranthropology 5:3

The latest issue (Vol 5, Number 3) of the free PDF journal Paranthropology (“anthropological approaches to the paranormal”) is now available to download (or you can read it online via Scribd). Here’s the complete rundown of features in the latest issue:

  • “The Spectrum of Specters:
 Making Sense of Ghostly Encounters”, by Michael Hirsch & Jammie Price
  • “

The Witch from “His-Story” to “Her-Stories”: Changing Contexts”, by Matt Coward
  • “
The Complexities of Evaluating Evidence for ‘Psychic’ Effects:
    Spontaneous Case Research in Parapsychology and Some Considerations for Progression”, by S. Alexander Hardison

  • “Ritual as Therapy:
 Steps Towards an Ethnography of the Invisible”, by Peter Mark Adams
  • Abstract of “Research Among Spirits, Ghosts and Deities: How to Study Non-Ordinary Realities”, a panel at BASR Annual Conference, The Open University, 
September 2014
  • “Progressivism, Materialism, Anthropology, Politics, and the Paranormal: Reflections on a Talk on William James’ ‘Excision'”, a commentary by T. Peter Park
  • William Rowlandson’s review of Talking With the Spirits: Ethnographies from Between the Worlds, edited by Jack Hunter & David Luke

(Full disclosure: I am the publisher of Talking With the Spirits)

In case you haven’t read this great resource before, all of the previous issues remain available to download from the site as well. I know from experience the work that goes into doing something like this, so if you get something out of the journal make it your mission to throw some money their way with a PayPal donation. Even small amounts help!

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