question: Complex personhood means that the stories people tell about themselves, about their troubles, about their social worlds, and about their society's problems are entangled and weave between what is immediately available as a story and what their imaginations are reaching toward Avery Gordon: Ghostly Matters, (p 4) The past several years have been riddled with what Avery Gordon describes as "hauntings", both on a personal level and on a collective level here in the United States, the country in which I live These are the specters that disturb our waking and sleeping lives and come to us in the form of what students, clients, and colleagues describe to me as "nightmares " [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Anthropology of Consciousness is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )