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Legend-Tripping Online - Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat

By: University Press of Mississippi

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Book (University Press of Mississippi)

Last Stocked on 12/4/2020

Product Info

Title
Legend-Tripping Online - Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat
Category
Author
Michael Kinsella
Publish Year
2014
Pages
211
Dimensions
6x9x.75"
NKG Part #
2147851846
Type
Softcover

Description

In Legend-Tripping Online, Michael Kinsella explores these and other extraordinary pursuits. This is the first book dedicated to legend-tripping, ritual quests in which people strive to explore and find manifest the very events described by supernatural legends. Through collective performances, legend-trippers harness the interpretive frameworks these stories provide and often claim incredible, out-of-this-world experiences that in turn perpetuate supernatural legends.

Legends and legend-tripping are assuming tremendous prominence in a world confronting new speeds of diversification, connection, and increasing cognitive load. As guardians of tradition as well as agents of change, legends and the ordeals they inspire contextualize ancient and emergent ideas, behaviors, and technologies that challenge familiar realities. This book analyzes supernatural legends and the ways in which the sharing spirit of the Internet collectivizes, codifies, and makes folklore of fantastic speculation.