23. mail kell 16.15 professor Grégory Delaplace loeng „Thinking with the poltergeist. Investigating haunted houses in 1920s England

Esmaspäeval, 23. mail kell 16.15 annab professor Grégory Delaplace (Professor at École Pratique des Hautes Études) loengu „Thinking with the poltergeist. Investigating haunted houses in 1920s England“.

Loeng toimub Ülikooli 16-212 ja ka online  - https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/5390938250?pwd=RE1TTzdmWE0rY0c0bldISS9BSU5Wdz09

Abstract
This lecture will explore some investigations into poltergeist phenomena, carried out during the 1920s within a scientific association based in London, the Society for Psychical Research. Focusing on two cases involving a young female investigator, Eve Brackenbury, and her dubiously famous male rival Harry Price, I will try and propose some ethnographic pathways into this archivistic material, wondering how they may sustain an anthropological approach to the invisible. What kind of being is a poltergeist, and how ingrained is it really in the social context from which it manifestly emerges?

Grégory Delaplace – Professor at École Pratique des Hautes Études, member of the l’Institut Universitaire de France https://www.gsrl-cnrs.fr/delaplace-gregory/Research Interests: Social Anthropology, Inner Asia and Mongolian Studies, Anthropology of the Invisible.

Selected publications
Books
2021    Les intelligences particulières. Enquête dans les maisons hantées, Bruxelles, Vues de l’esprit.
2008    L’invention des morts. Sépultures, fantômes et photographie en Mongolie contemporaine, Paris, EPHE (Nord-Asie 1).
Articles and chapters
2021    Being skillful. Wisely navigating an intensely heterogenous cosmos in Mongolia (avec L. Legrain), Études Mongoles & Sibériennes, Centre-Asiatiques & Tibétaines 52 (numéro spécial Points of Transition: Ovoos and the Ritual Remaking of Religious, Ecological, and Historical Politics in Inner Asia).
2020    Enchanting democracy. Facing the past in Mongolian shamanic rituals, in G. Harvey, M. Houseman, S. Pike & J. Salomonsen (dirs.), Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as a Cultural Resource. London & Oxford, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 53-68.
2019    The ruler, the wrestler, and the archer. A Mongolian way of dwelling. Inner Asia 21/2 : 180-198.
2018    Les fantômes sont des choses qui arrivent, Terrain. Anthropologie et Sciences Humaines 69 : 4-23.
2017    Comment pensent les drones. La détection et l’identification de cibles invisibles, L’Homme. Revue française d’ethnologie 222 : 91-117.
2014    Establishing mutual misunderstanding. A Buryat Shamanic Ritual in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) (avec B. Sambalkhundev), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20/4 : 617-634.
2014    What the invisible looks like. Ghosts, perceptual faith and Mongolian regimes of communication, in R. Blanes & D. Espírito Santo (dirs.), The Social Life of Spirits. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, pp.52-68.
2012    Parasitic Chinese, vengeful Russians: Ghosts, strangers and reciprocity in Mongolia, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (numéro spécial The return to hospitality: strangers, guests, and ambiguous encounters) 18s1 : s131-s144.
2011    Enterrer, submerger, oublier. Invention et subversion du souvenir des morts en Mongolie, Raisons Politiques (numéro spécial Fragments de corps et restes humains), 41/1 : 87-103.
2010    Le cheval magnétomètre. Dressage et choses invisibles en Mongolie, in D. Aigle, I. Charleux, R. Hamayon et V. Goossaert (eds.), Mélanges en l’honneur de Françoise Aubin. Sankt Augustin: Miscellanea Asiatica, pp.121-139.
2006    The place of the dead: Power, subjectivity and funerary topography in north-western Mongolia, in D. Sneath (ed.), States of Mind: Power, Places and the Subject in Inner Asia. Bellingham: Western Washington University, pp.47-62.

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