ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Exsanguination, Forensic Anthropology, Forensic Pathology
10 Dec 2017
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Seen as evil, liminal because not betwixt and between state not quite dead but not quite alive. Tend to think in dichotomies, strict categorization doesn"t fit in our pre-existing ideas, are seen as evil. Vampires are seen as cause of illness or misfortune. Who can be accused of being a vampire vary across culturally. Cross culturally: vampires entities appear in a variety of cultures. Vampire blaming is often a means of scapegoatism in much the same way as accusations of witchcraft. Romania-women accused if they failed to perform traditional women"s roles romania eastern europe, deceased woman accused of being vampires didn"t" live up to be the norms of feminine in that culture. Who didn"t act to norm accused of being a vampire. Earliest vampire myths: vampire-like entities in roman, greek, mesopotamian mythology, example: ekkimu-spirits (akin to mana) that wandered the earth stealing the aura of plants, animals and other animate beings; could materialize as gusts of wind.
