The real vampires of New Orleans and Buffalo: a research note towards comparative ethnography

John Edgar Browning
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John Edgar Browning: School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Palgrave Communications, 2015, vol. 1, issue palcomms20156, 15006-

Abstract: This research note is an elaboration of my ethnographic work of the last 5 years and is here presented to raise careful discussion of the little-explored identity and phenomenon of “real vampirism”. An auxiliary purpose of these preliminary findings is to draw attention specifically to a yet unexplored dimension of the real vampire identity: geographical specificity. This line of enquiry is informed by the intensive ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in 2009–2011 in the New Orleans metropolitan area, and by supplementary ethnographic work in 2011–2013 in Buffalo, New York. Also explored is what I term “defiant culture”, through which, I posit, vampire self-identification is able to achieve a measure of empowerment by resisting “normalcy” while critiquing and challenging the power structures that re/produce it.

Date: 2015
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