| Description |
1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Monsters, Anthropology, and Monster Studies / Yasmine Musharbash -- Cave Men, Luminoids and Dragons : Monstrous Creatures Mediating Relationships between People and Country in Aboriginal Northern Australia / Joanne Thurman -- Monstrous Transformations : A Case Study from Central Australia / Yasmine Musharbash -- Specters of Reality : Mamu in the Eastern Western Desert of Australia / Ute Eickelkamp -- A Murder of Monsters: Terror and Morality in an Aboriginal Religion / John Morton -- Burnt Woman of the Mission : Gender and Horror in an Aboriginal Settlement in Northern New South Wales / Mahnaz Alimardanian -- Demons Within : Maleficent Manifestations in the Hare Krishna Movement / Malcolm Haddon -- Ghosts and the Everyday Politics of Race in Fiji / Geir Henning Presterudstuen -- Entanglements Between Tao People and Anito and Lanyu Island, Taiwan / Leberecht Funk -- When Goblins Come to Town : The Ethnography of Urban Hauntings in Georgia / Paul Manning -- The Workings of Monsters : Of Monsters and Humans in Icelandic Society / Helena Onnudottir -- Afterword : Strangerhood, Pragmatics, and Place in the Dialectics of Monster and Norm / Rupert Stasch |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Australasia.
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Monsters -- Australasia.
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Animals, Mythical -- Australasia.
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Ethnology -- Australasia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Musharbash, Yasmine, editor
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Henning Presterudstuen, Geir, editor
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| ISBN |
9781137448651 (electronic bk.) |
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1137448652 (electronic bk.) |
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