Discriminating spirits: cultural source theory and the human-nonhuman boundary.

Ghosts symbolically represent the social recognition of a subject's personhood as well as the legitimacy of that individual's experience with inequality since many haunting narratives center grievance. Marginalized groups may be so oppressed that they do not warrant acknowledgement, thus protecting...

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Published in:	Mortality Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 348 - 364
Main Author:	Wrenn, Corey Lee
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2020
Subjects:	Attachment behavior Content analysis Culture Death Discrimination (Sociology) Human-animal relationships Pets Spirituality Qualitative research Animal experimentation
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