Occupational Ghostlore
Social Context and the Expression of Belief
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2811556 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack Santino (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 400 |
| Pages | 207 |
| Publication date | 1988-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/540109 |
| OpenAlex | W2312774947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In certain occupations, such as mining and sailing, researchers have documented the belief in ghosts who are said to warn former colleagues and comembers of danger and impending accidents and to help them in times of disaster. Recently, this belief has been important to members of the airline industry. Such beliefs are often encapsulated in narrative as legends and are shared by some members of the industry, but the researcher who studies these beliefs and their narrative expressions must consider the context of the interviewing and collecting situation as major determinants in the nature of the expression itself. Three recountings of the belief in the ghost ofa flight engineer who perished in a crash landing, all told by the same individual in very different circumstances, are compared
Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Expression (computer science) · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Knowledge Management and Technology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Topic Modeling
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2014 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |