{"id":300,"date":"2014-02-18T19:16:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T19:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsudlr.wordpress.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2014-02-18T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T19:16:59","slug":"the-social-function-of-haunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/dlr\/2014\/02\/18\/the-social-function-of-haunted\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Function of Haunted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jordan Meyer<\/p>\n<p>It seems that we often use haunting to discuss our culture\u2019s social mores and taboos. For example, scholars Colleen Boyd and Coll Thrush theorize that stories of haunting associated with Native Americans are really a means of discussing the social shame held by those who have benefited from the oppressions of the past. Without directly discussing this shame, however, non-native Americans share ghost stories associated with these indigenous peoples, thus becoming haunted by their own shame.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We live in a society that often idolizes the first generations of European settlers, referring to some as our \u201cFounding Fathers\u201d while majestic oil paintings of them loom in many galleries. To admit that their treatment of the Native Americans was wrong and that they were guilty of mass genocide has become a mor\u00e9 in many parts of our society \u2013 especially when we realize how much our ancestors gained for us through this oppression. As such, haunting becomes a means of circumventing the norms of society. It allows a discussion of social mores and taboos that, like the specters of lore, are at the edges of tangibility.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Boyd and Thrush cite a number of examples of how this masking of social shame has played out in popular culture. Some of these examples are rooted in stories specific to a localized region, while some of them, such as a mention of a scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0185937\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Blair Witch Project<\/em><\/a> in which the characters stumble upon a Native graveyard, are much more generalized and direct. Of course, the mere mention of being haunted by indigenous peoples also brings any number of campfire stories to mind as well. Regardless of time and place, it seems that social shame appears to be the common meaning held by the vast majority of these stories, with the repressed heartbreak resurfacing in the form of the spiritual Other.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Works Cited<\/p>\n<p>Boyd, Colleen E., and Coll Thrush. \u201cIntroduction.\u201d Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jordan Meyer It seems that we often use haunting to discuss our culture\u2019s social mores and taboos. 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