To Which Earthly Categories Do Not Apply: Spirit Photography, Filipino Ghosts, and the Global Occult at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
In this article I examine an album of spirit photographs published in Barcelona circa 1903. The album comprises two photograph collections, one of photos taken in a studio in Manila, the Philippines, another belonging to Dr. Theodore Hansmann, a German immigrant to the USA who was one of the country...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Taylor & Francis
[2017]
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| In: |
Material religion
Jahr: 2017, Band: 13, Heft: 3, Seiten: 301-328 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Philippinen
/ Spiritistische Fotografie
/ Okkultismus
/ Verbreitung
/ Geschichte 1860-1920
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| RelBib Classification: | AZ Neue Religionen KBM Asien |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Photography
B Empire B Philippines B Spiritism B Spiritualism B History B Supernatural B Occult |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this article I examine an album of spirit photographs published in Barcelona circa 1903. The album comprises two photograph collections, one of photos taken in a studio in Manila, the Philippines, another belonging to Dr. Theodore Hansmann, a German immigrant to the USA who was one of the country's most ardent advocates and researchers of spirit photography. Apart from their overt share in a genre, it is unclear what connects these two collections and who exactly brought them together. I draw from this ambiguity in order to explore the tension between spiritism as a philosophy and practice that traveled via historically specific colonial routes and were localized to particular political and cultural contexts, and spiritism as a global occult movement founded precisely on the promise of transcending metaphysical and spatial boundaries. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2017.1326704 |