Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. "This study's comprehensiveness and the author's bone-dry wit make this compelling reading, not just for folklorists, but for anyone interested in a time when the dead wouldn't stay dead."-Booklist "Barber's inquiry into vampires, fact and fiction, is a gem in the literature of debunking... [and] a convincing exercise in mental archaeology."-Roy Porter, Nature "A splendid book about the undead, illuminated by the findings of morbid anatomy.... The main value of this most interesting book is to remind us how far we have come in our ability to explain the world and how this has released us from at least some terrors."-Anthony Daniels, Spectator "This book is fascinating reading for physicians and anthropologists as well as anyone interested in folklore."-R. Ted Steinbock, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association "A fascinating and pain-staking (sorry!) thesis, which welds together folklore, epidemic panic, communal stupidity, and forensic and funereal science."-Huw Knight, New Scientist

Vampires. --- Postmortem changes --- Dead --- Change, Postmortem --- Change after death --- Changes, Postmortem --- Changes after death --- Post-mortem changes --- Death (Biology) --- Decomposition (Chemistry) --- Lesbian vampires --- Monsters --- Dead (in religion, folk-lore, etc.)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

POSTMORTEM CHANGE IN HUMAN AND ANIMAL REMAINS: A Systematic Approach provides a unique, synthetic treatment of postmortem change presented in a systematic fashion with attention to the relative chronologies of both physical and cultural factors that influence human and animal remains. This book integrates reports and observations in the anthropology/archaeology literature with material as appropriate from medicine, pathology, paleopathology, ethnography (cultural anthropology) and the forensic sciences, as well as reporting on original observations by the author. In addition to discussing tran

Animal remains (Archaeology). --- Anthropometry. --- Archaeology -- Methodology. --- Postmortem changes. --- Taphonomy. --- Archaeology --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Anthropometry --- Postmortem changes --- Taphonomy --- Anthropology, Physical --- Investigative Techniques --- Physical Examination --- Cadaver --- Earth Sciences --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Biometry --- Anthropology --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Death --- Pathologic Processes --- Public Health --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Social Sciences --- Diagnosis --- Postmortem Changes --- Paleontology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Environment and Public Health --- Diseases --- Health Care --- History & Archaeology --- Earth Science --- Geoscience --- Geosciences --- Science, Earth --- Sciences, Earth --- Corpse --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Examination, Physical --- Physical Examinations and Diagnoses --- Physical Exam --- Exam, Physical --- Examinations, Physical --- Exams, Physical --- Physical Examinations --- Physical Exams --- Surgical Clearance --- Independent Medical Evaluation --- Investigative Technics --- Investigative Technic --- Investigative Technique --- Technic, Investigative --- Technics, Investigative --- Technique, Investigative --- Techniques, Investigative --- Physical Anthropology --- Change, Postmortem --- Change after death --- Changes, Postmortem --- Changes after death --- Post-mortem changes --- Death (Biology) --- Decomposition (Chemistry) --- Skeletal remains --- Physical anthropology --- Body size --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Symptoms and General Pathology --- Phylogeography --- Archeology --- Bioarchaeology --- Body Composition --- Body Weights and Measures --- Adipocere --- Algor Mortis --- Cruor --- Livor Mortis --- Postmortem Change --- Exhumation --- Antemortem Diagnosis --- Diagnoses and Examinations --- Examinations and Diagnoses --- Postmortem Diagnosis --- Diagnose --- Antemortem Diagnoses --- Diagnoses --- Diagnoses, Antemortem --- Diagnoses, Postmortem --- Diagnosis, Antemortem --- Diagnosis, Postmortem --- Postmortem Diagnoses --- Disease --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Community Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Community --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Pathological Processes --- Processes, Pathologic --- Processes, Pathological --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Thanatology --- Fatal Outcome --- Measurements, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiologic Measurement --- Measurement, Epidemiologic --- Natural Sciences --- Physical Sciences --- Discipline, Natural Science --- Disciplines, Natural Science --- Natural Science --- Natural Science Discipline --- Physical Science --- Science, Natural --- Science, Physical --- Sciences, Natural --- Sciences, Physical --- Diagnostic Technics and Procedures --- Technics and Procedures, Diagnostic --- Techniques and Procedures, Diagnostic --- Diagnostic Testing --- Testing, Diagnostic --- Sensitivity and Specificity --- Statistics as Topic --- Cultural Anthropology --- Material Culture --- Ethnography --- Culture, Material --- Ethnographies --- Material Cultures --- Qualitative Research --- Methodology --- diagnosis --- methods --- Archéologie --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Anthropométrie --- Taphonomie --- Méthodologie --- Occupations