Books by Bruce A . McClelland
Using Technology to Improve Care of Older Adults, 2017
"Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of curr... more "Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well-being of older adults. It provides key information about the development, selection, and implementation of technology products, and describes research evidence, education-based initiatives, and systems thinking. The book also examines challenges and barriers to implementation, adoption, and innovation. From telehealth and assistive technology in the home to simulation and augmented reality in educational settings, the text provides a hands-on, field-tested articulation of how products can aid in the transitional care process, chronic care delivery, and geriatrics/gerontology education. It discusses technology developments in rural areas, home telehealth, wearable technology, personalized medicine, social robots, technology to assist seniors with cognitive impairments, and, in this chapter, the potential of artificial intelligence technologies to enhance the health and health care of older adults."
я íå ïîìíþ òî÷íî íîìåð ìàðøðóòà, íî ÿ õîðîøî ïîìíþ òîò aeàðêèé äåíü. Ñòàðûé áëåäíîaeåëòûé Èêàðóñ ... more я íå ïîìíþ òî÷íî íîìåð ìàðøðóòà, íî ÿ õîðîøî ïîìíþ òîò aeàðêèé äåíü. Ñòàðûé áëåäíîaeåëòûé Èêàðóñ øёë ïî Ìîñôèëüìîâñêîé. Áûëî äóøíî è òåìíî. ß íàïðàâëÿëñÿ íà Ìîñôèëüì, ãäå â äâà ÷àñà ó ìåíÿ áûëà ïðîáà äëÿ êàêîé-òî êîìåäèè.
Welcome to this, the first issue of the new Annandale Dream Gazette. There have been, to be sure,... more Welcome to this, the first issue of the new Annandale Dream Gazette. There have been, to be sure, other editions of gazettes with the same name, but those (three, so far, to my knowledge) all failed— or shall we say, were aborted—simply because their basic premise was misguided. Yet what, I hear you being bold enough to ask, leads me to believe that this, too, won't end up a miscarriage of some ill-conceived attempt to attach the right name to the wrong intention? What, in other words, might have been so wrong about the energies lurking behind previous issuances, and what is so self-assuredly different about this eugenic enterprise?
In contemporary Western popular culture, the vampire has evolved into one of the most recognizabl... more In contemporary Western popular culture, the vampire has evolved into one of the most recognizable symbols of evil. Yet less has been said—and even less has been understood—about its nemesis, the vampire slayer. Slayers and Their Vampires is the first work to explore how the vampire slayer began, and it goes further to ask why the true history of the vampire slayer has been so long ignored.
Author Bruce McClelland describes how the literary and screen dramas obscured the darker nature of the slayer, whose persecution of a corpse is accepted as heroic rather than corrupt. McClelland refuses to accept the heroism of most slayers like Dracula's Van Helsing or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who are routinely presented as superheroes acting above the law because of their special knowledge. Instead, he presents a nonromanticized history of the earliest vampire rituals that shows how much creative license figured into the refashioning of the vampire for the entertainment of the West.
With its wide range of inquiry, this book will appeal not only to fans of Dracula, vampire, Buffy, Anne Rice, and Anita Blake lore, but also to students of anthropology, sociology, European religious history, Slavistics, folklore, and cinematic and literary history.
Papers by Bruce A . McClelland
In contemporary Western popular culture, the vampire has evolved into one of the most recognizabl... more In contemporary Western popular culture, the vampire has evolved into one of the most recognizable symbols of evil. Yet, less has been said - and even less has been understood - about its nemesis, the vampire slayer. ""Slayers and Their Vampires"" is the first work to explore how the vampire slayer began, and it goes further to ask why the true history of the vampire slayer has been so long ignored. Author Bruce McClelland describes how the literary and screen dramas obscured the darker nature of the slayer, whose persecution of a corpse is accepted as heroic rather than corrupt. McClelland refuses to accept the heroism of most slayers like Dracula's ""Van Helsing"" or ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"", who are routinely presented as superheroes acting above the law because of their special knowledge. Instead, he presents a nonromanticized history of the earliest vampire rituals that shows what it meant to kill vampires then and what it has come to mean now. Along the way, we learn how much creative license figured into the refashioning of the vampire for the entertainment of the West. With its wide range of inquiry, this book will appeal not only to fans of Dracula, vampire, Buffy, Anne Rice, and Anita Blake lore, but also to students of anthropology, sociology, European religious history, Slavistics, folklore, and cinematic and literary history.
UMI Dissertation Services eBooks, 1999
Vampire narratives known in the West from literature and film derive many characteristics from fo... more Vampire narratives known in the West from literature and film derive many characteristics from folklore of the Balkan and Carpathian regions of Eastern Europe. It is generally agreed that the folkloric vampire is of Slavic origin, and that the Slavic term <i>vampir</i> gained currency in the First Bulgarian Empire around the tenth century. However, clues in the folklore and the historical record suggest that the vampire was not originally a demonic person who returned from the dead. The dissertation thus seeks to answer the question of what the term 'vampire' may have meant in the Balkan Middle Ages. Contemporary notions of the vampire are expressions of social and religious conflicts that first arose during a period of intense effort to convert the inhabitants of the Balkans to Orthodox Christianity. Bulgarian folklore about vampires and similar demons is highly ritualistic, involving actions, gestures, and objects that reveal, when viewed in the light of Slavic history and Balkan ethnography, a high degree of religious syncretism. In particular, strong similarities exist between the details found in vampire lore and many pre- christian elements that survive in such Bulgarian customs as funeral rites and feasts known as <i>kurbans</i>, which are based upon animal sacrifice. The first "vampires" may have been individuals who practiced blood sacrifice, despite open hostility to the practice expressed by the early Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Early Slavic writings by Christian apologists exhibit antipathy first toward sacrifice as a vestige of polytheism and paganism, and later toward the dualist heresies that became prevalent in the Balkans. Starting with a catalogue of the salient features of vampire folklore, the roots of the folkloric symbolism are sought in the conflict between the Christians and the indigenous population who refused to give up the practice of sacrifice. The idea that the vampire in a Bulgarian agrarian village serves as a scapegoat for calamities or other events derives directly from an earl [...]
Choice Reviews Online, 2007
History of Religions, 2003
Journal of Vampire Studies, 2020
This is a considered rejoinder to an essay by Kamil Stachowski concerning an etymology of the wor... more This is a considered rejoinder to an essay by Kamil Stachowski concerning an etymology of the word "vampire" that was first presented in my dissertation (Sacrifice, Scapegoat, Vampire: The Social and Religious Origin of the Bulgarian Folkloric Vampire. University of Virginia, 1999) and summarized in my book Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead (University of Michigan Press, 2006).
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Books by Bruce A . McClelland
Author Bruce McClelland describes how the literary and screen dramas obscured the darker nature of the slayer, whose persecution of a corpse is accepted as heroic rather than corrupt. McClelland refuses to accept the heroism of most slayers like Dracula's Van Helsing or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who are routinely presented as superheroes acting above the law because of their special knowledge. Instead, he presents a nonromanticized history of the earliest vampire rituals that shows how much creative license figured into the refashioning of the vampire for the entertainment of the West.
With its wide range of inquiry, this book will appeal not only to fans of Dracula, vampire, Buffy, Anne Rice, and Anita Blake lore, but also to students of anthropology, sociology, European religious history, Slavistics, folklore, and cinematic and literary history.
Papers by Bruce A . McClelland
Author Bruce McClelland describes how the literary and screen dramas obscured the darker nature of the slayer, whose persecution of a corpse is accepted as heroic rather than corrupt. McClelland refuses to accept the heroism of most slayers like Dracula's Van Helsing or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who are routinely presented as superheroes acting above the law because of their special knowledge. Instead, he presents a nonromanticized history of the earliest vampire rituals that shows how much creative license figured into the refashioning of the vampire for the entertainment of the West.
With its wide range of inquiry, this book will appeal not only to fans of Dracula, vampire, Buffy, Anne Rice, and Anita Blake lore, but also to students of anthropology, sociology, European religious history, Slavistics, folklore, and cinematic and literary history.