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DOCUMENT Citation Only Moon K. Pankam.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What does it mean to be haunted in a space of recurrent disaster and destruction? During this program session, I will explore how understandings of death, grief, absence, and material/immaterial haunting have developed in Phuket, Thailand in the years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. I will also examine where these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenna E Adams.

This paper examines material culture as well as the ghost tourism of Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Colonial Park is a hot spot not only for ghostly activity but also for stops on numerous Savannah walking ghost tours. However, the information presented on many ghost tours often ignores or alters the history of the cemetery. The tours often embellish certain events, such as the 1820 yellow fever epidemic, but perhaps more importantly, they ignore aspects of the cemetery’s history,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alena R. Pirok. Julia King.

Sociologist Michael Mayerfield Bell argues that ghosts -- what he describes as "the sense of the presence of those that are not there" -- haunt all landscapes, operating to "connect us across time and space to the web of social life." Bell does not distinguish between what might be considered memory ghosts and supernatural ghosts; both, he says, lead to a better understanding of the social experience of place. Archaeologists often steer away from ghosts because we consider them "not real."...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anand V Taneja.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I will look at stories of three jinn-haunted ruins in contemporary South Asia: The Moti Masjid in the Lahore Fort, parts of the abandoned Mughal capital of Fatehpur Sikri, and the ruins of Firoz Shah Kotla in Delhi. All three are associated with South Asia’s pre-colonial Muslim rulers, and all three are sites associated with...