IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/palcom/v2015y2015ipalcomms20156p15006-.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The real vampires of New Orleans and Buffalo: a research note towards comparative ethnography

Author

Listed:
  • John Edgar Browning

    (School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)

Abstract

This research note is an elaboration of my ethnographic work of the last 5 years and is here presented to raise careful discussion of the little-explored identity and phenomenon of “real vampirism”. An auxiliary purpose of these preliminary findings is to draw attention specifically to a yet unexplored dimension of the real vampire identity: geographical specificity. This line of enquiry is informed by the intensive ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in 2009–2011 in the New Orleans metropolitan area, and by supplementary ethnographic work in 2011–2013 in Buffalo, New York. Also explored is what I term “defiant culture”, through which, I posit, vampire self-identification is able to achieve a measure of empowerment by resisting “normalcy” while critiquing and challenging the power structures that re/produce it.

Suggested Citation

  • John Edgar Browning, 2015. "The real vampires of New Orleans and Buffalo: a research note towards comparative ethnography," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 1(palcomms2), pages 15006-15006, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palcom:v:2015:y:2015:i:palcomms20156:p:15006-
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/palcomms/2015/palcomms20156/pdf/palcomms20156.pdf
    File Function: Link to full text PDF
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://www.nature.com/palcomms/2015/palcomms20156/full/palcomms20156.html
    File Function: Link to full text HTML
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palcom:v:2015:y:2015:i:palcomms20156:p:15006-. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.nature.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.