I have a confession to make. My secret inner reaction to claims of anomalous phenomena is usually this: we havent yet converged to even a half-decent ontology to explain the ordinary, why bother with the extra-ordinary? What this fascinating book does, however, is to disrupt our attempts to draw neat and smooth boundaries around what we consider real. The damned facts discussed in it spoil our elegant tentative models. Frankly, its damn annoying. But books like this are also crucially important to keep us honest, insofar as our pursuit is for the truth, not merely intellectual reassurance.
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I have a confession to make. My secret inner reaction to claims of anomalous phenomena is usually this: we havent yet converged to even a half-decent ...
Folklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts.
Folklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range ...
