The haunting metaphor is rapidly catching on in anthropology and other disciplines as a way of drawing attention to aspects of social experience that typically fall outside the scope of conventional social analysis: to feelings and experiences of loss, dispossession, unease, unfairness and injustice, regret, remorse, lack of recognition or misrecognition, and so on. Yet because many scholars contributing to the hauntology literature have unwittingly confused or failed to distinguish between the metaphorical “haunting” of past injustices and the characteristics and behaviors of actual ghosts, the fundamental issues of who is being haunted by whom, under what circumstances, and for what reasons often remain muddled or unclear. I argue that the relational aspects of haunting—the fact that some people experience ghosts and hauntings while others under the same conditions do not—suggest that analyses of the dynamic forces contributing to the emergence and disappearance of ghosts must always include a concern with the complex emotional lives of the haunted.

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谁被谁困扰？迈向困扰生态的步骤

困扰人类的隐喻正在人类学和其他学科中迅速流行，以此来引起人们对社会经验方面的关注，这些方面通常不在常规社会分析的范围之内：迷失，被剥夺，不安，不公平和不公正，遗憾的感觉和经历，re悔，缺乏认识或误认，等等。然而，由于许多为鬼文学研究做出贡献的学者都在不知不觉中混淆或未能区分过去的不公正行为的隐喻性“困扰”与实际鬼魂的特征和行为，因此根本问题是谁被谁，在什么情况下以及如何被困扰。由于什么原因经常会感到困惑或不清楚。