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The Vampire: A Casebook
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Author: Alan Dundes
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Back cover (view larger image)Actual Dimensions: 0.44 x 9.30 x 6.02 See all 9 sample pages Or Use 1-ClickSign in to turn on 1-Click ordering. Book Description "The Vampire is a winner. . . Alan Dundes is a truly remarkable scholar."-Wolfgang Mieder, professor of German and folklore and author of The Politics of Proverbs Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Eleven leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology, and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood. The Vampire: A Casebook takes this legend out of the realm of literature and film and back to its dark beginnings in folk traditions. The essays examine the history of the word "vampire;" Romanian vampires; Greek vampires; Serbian vampires; the physical attributes of vampires; the killing of vampires; and the possible psychoanalytic underpinnings of vampires. Much more than simply a scary creature of the human imagination, the vampire has been and continues to haunt the lives of all those who encounter it-in reality or in fiction. From the Publisher Other Alan Dundes casebooks: The Walled-Up Wife Oedipus Folk Law The Wisdom of Many The Cockfight The Evil Eye, The Blood Libel Legend Little Red Riding Hood Cinderella See all editorial reviews...Customer ReviewsAvg. Customer Review: Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:Wasted Time, July 8, 2001Reviewer:Brad Kashanchifrom Santa Monica, CA United StatesThis book is certainly one of the worst books I ever purchased. The information about the subject is completely irrelevant and of cource misleading.The author Alan Dundes clearly states that Vampyrism has nothing to do with Vlad Tepes!!! I literally had to tear this book apart when I got to know the real essence of it.If youre a fan of superstitions and scary stupid rumurs go for it,but if you are searching for truth dont even think about buying this book.I should have known it by even looking at the cover.Was this review helpful to you? 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:An excellent collection of academic perspectives on vampires, November 4, 2000Reviewer:amazingmrkimble(see more about me)from Alameda, New Mexico - USAIf you are interested in getting behind the fiction to the facts of vampires, this is an excellent place to start. The collection of scholars who wrote essays for this volume come from anthropology as well as psychiatry, with historians as well as students of Slavic culture. Consequently, you are bound to find one perspective on vampires that will suit your personal inclinations. More importantly, taken as a whole the book provides a broad spectrum of academic study of the popular phenomenon.Was this review helpful to you? 10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:Eleven scholars unearth the legend., November 5, 1998Reviewer:W.D. Grissom(see more about me) The vampire of literature and films is perhaps too familiar, but the underpinnings of the legends in the folk traditions of southeastern Europe are quite different from the popular image, and more interesting. Eleven fascinating essays by scholars in Slavic studies, anthropology, history, and psychiatry here illuminate this dark corner of primitive imagination, show how such a seemingly bizarre belief is tied to certain folk practices of exhumation, bring the studies up to date with cases of modern "vampires", and offer a psychoanalytic interpretation of the phenomenon. (The "score" rating is an unfortunately ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)Was this review helpful to you? 5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:interesting book, November 2, 1998Reviewer:PDTyrrell@aol.comThe Vampire--A Casebook, is fairly informative. It makes the observation in the first chapter that the word Vampire is actually of serbian origen, not transalvanian or hungarian as many people think. It is edited mostly by college professors none of whom seem to believe in any kinds of vampires as being real. One guy teaches a class on vampires at the University of Virginia. He edits the chapter of the book which deals with seventeen or so brief--one paragraph--reports of peasents in Romanias accounts of what vampires do. Theyre capable of drawing illusions of enchanted forests in so doing converting a hapless victem who believes the illusion into a vampire. The chapter on the greek vampire points out differences and variations of customs from other regions as well as the similarity of: one way of making a vampire is to have a cat (or sometimes any other object) cross over a corpse. The grusome cover of this book will grab your attention.. . . .Read More
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