Meeting with an anthropologist of the invisible: Gregory Delaplace who investigates the different ways in which the dead manifest themselves to the living. Is our humanity haunted? Since when and why? What do our ghosts say about us?
Let’s take another look at ghosts, not asking if they exist but rather why and how the dead manifest themselves to the living in so many different ways?
What does this say about us and our humanities? Why do the anthropology of ghosts? With Gregory Delaplace who has just published The voice of ghostsa stunning field investigation that takes us from Mongolia to Madagascar via Cameroon, Vietnam and Great Britain to try to understand why the dead are fighting back? Why don’t they stay in the place that we the living have assigned to them? In what historical, geographical and social contexts do specters appear and why is our time conducive to their manifestation? Has our humanity been haunted forever and more than ever?
With Gregory Delaplaceanthropologist specializing in Mongolia and its funeral rituals for his work The voice of ghosts, when the dead overflow published in Seuil.
