Traditions and Transitions folk narrative in the contemporary world
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July 2001 The University of Melbourne, Australia
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Many decades ago in Oh, What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me! Edmund Carpenter, an associate of Marshall McLuhan, noted the strange effects caused during transitions between different life-worlds or media-worlds. Many of the implications of his observations are only becoming apparent today, as disparities between media environments both widen and come into contact with increasing rapidity. In contemporary fieldwork narratives become embedded and enmeshed in startling ways. Based on fieldwork in an Amdo Tibetan community, this paper makes use of folktale, newspaper reports, television coverage, a cannibal restauranteur, a cannibal ogress and the anthropologist’s acting career to consider how phantoms take on a life of their own and how we misread them.
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