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1 online resource |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Monsters, Anthropology, and Monster Studies; Yasmine Musharbash -- 2. Cave Men, Luminoids and Dragons: Monstrous Creatures Mediating Relationships between People and Country in Aboriginal Northern Australia; Joanne Thurman -- 3. Monstrous Transformations: A Case Study from Central Australia; Yasmine Musharbash -- 4. Specters of Reality; Mamu in the Eastern Western Desert of Australia; Ute Eickelkamp -- 5. A Murder of Monsters: Terror and Morality in an Aboriginal Religion; John Morton -- 6. Burnt Woman of the Mission: Gender and Horror in an Aboriginal Settlement in Northern New South Wales; Mahnaz Alimardanian -- 7. Demons Within: Maleficent Manifestations in the Hare Krishna Movement; Malcolm Haddon -- 8. Ghosts and the Everyday Politics of Race in Fiji; Geir Henning Presterudstuen -- 9. Entanglements Between Tao People and Anito and LAnyu Island, Taiwan; Leberecht Funk -- 10. When Goblins Come to Town: The Ethnography of Urban Hauntings in Georgia; Paul Manning -- 11. The Workings of Monsters: Of Monsters and Humans in Icelandic Society; Helena Onnudottir -- 12. Afterword: Strangerhood Pragmatics, and Place in the Dialectics of Monster and Norm; Rupert Stasch |
| Summary |
The monsters that anthropologists encounter in their field sites differ significantly from those portrayed and analyzed in the thriving interdisciplinary literature--anthropology's monsters haunt off the pages of books and screens of televisions. These monsters come in all sorts of (non-gothic) guises, and their presence is inextricably intertwined with the lives of those they haunt. Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, media, and cultural studies, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world, from Aboriginal Australia in the Pacific to Asia and Europe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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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REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
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Animals, Mythical
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Ethnology
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Folklore
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Monsters
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Australasia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Henning Presterudstuen, Geir, author
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| ISBN |
9781137448651 |
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1137448652 |
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9781349501298 |
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1349501298 |
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1137472790 |
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9781137472793 |
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