The Vampire: A Casebook

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Summary: An excellent collection of academic perspectives on vampires
Review: If 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.

Rating:
Summary: An excellent collection of academic perspectives on vampires
Review: If 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.

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Summary: Eleven scholars unearth the legend.
Review: 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.)

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Summary: Wasted Time
Review: This 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 you're a fan of superstitions and scary stupid rumurs go for it,but if you are searching for truth don't even think about buying this book.I should have known it by even looking at the cover.

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Summary: Wasted Time
Review: This 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 you're a fan of superstitions and scary stupid rumurs go for it,but if you are searching for truth don't even think about buying this book.I should have known it by even looking at the cover.