Anthropology and cryptozoology : researching encounters with mysterious creatures /: researching encounters with mysterious creatures. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Samantha Hurn.
• Editors: Hurn, Samantha
• Contents: 1. The place of cryptids in taxonomic debates / Stephanie S. Turner -- 2. Cryptids, classification and categories of cats : an ethnozoological study of unidentified felids from eastern Indoneasia / Gregory Forth -- 3. Cryptid and credulity : the Zanzibar leopard and other imaginary beings / Martin T. Walsh and Helle V. Goldman -- 4. The Naga tiger-man and the modern assemblage of a myth / Michael Heneise -- 5. Human predation and animal sociality : the transformational agency of 'wolf people' in Mongolia / Mette M. High -- 6. Enigmatic bush dwarfs of West Africa : the case of the siyawesi of northwestern Benin / Sharon Merz -- 7. Suspending disbelief and experienceing the extraordinary : how radical participation may facilitate an understanding of aquatic snakes and fish-tailed beings in southern Africa / Penelope Bernard -- 8. Mermaids in Brazil : the (ongoing) creolisation of the water goddesses Oxum and Iemanjá / Bettina E. Schmidt -- 9. Ganka : trickster or endangered species? An anthropologist's role in preventing the extinction of the New Jersey sea monster / Tanya J. King -- 10. Far from the madding crowd : big cats on Dartmoor and in Dorset, UK / Adrian Franklin -- 11. Land of beasts and dragons : contemporary myth-making in rural Wales / Samantha Hurn -- 12. Digesting 'cryptid' snakes : a phenomenological approach to the mythic and cosmogenetic properties of serpent hallucinations / Luci Attalla.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 001.944; Monsters -- Psychological aspects; Cryptozoology; Anthropology; REFERENCE / Questions & Answers; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781409466765; 1409466760; 9781317180463; 1317180461; 9781317180456; 1317180453
• Related ISBNs: 9781409466758; 1409466752; 9781315567297
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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