Jesse A. Fivecoate, Andrea Kitta

Gebundenes Buch

Whispers in the Echo Chamber

Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society

Herausgeber: Kitta, Andrea; Fivecoate, Jesse A.

Beschreibung

Makes the case that conspiracy theories are fundamentally a folklore genre, akin to and often involving other belief narratives like rumor and legend

Autor

Jesse A. Fivecoate, a folklorist and sociocultural anthropologist with a PhD from Indiana University, studies the use of communal belief narratives that circulate within a group as a way of remembering and discussing episodes of conflict and crisis. He is a coeditor of Advancing Folkloristics. Andrea Kitta is a folklorist and a professor of multicultural and transnational literature in the Department of English at East Carolina University. She is the author of Vaccinations and Public Concern in History: Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception and The Kiss of Death: Contamination, Contagion, and Folklore as well as a coeditor of Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Health, Trauma, and Disability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780299350604
• ISBN-10: 0299350606
• Artikelnr.: 71160673