Anthropology and cryptozoology : researching encounters with mysterious creatures /: researching encounters with mysterious creatures. (2017)
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- Book
- Title:
- Anthropology and cryptozoology : researching encounters with mysterious creatures /: researching encounters with mysterious creatures. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Anthropology and cryptozoology : researching encounters with mysterious creatures
- 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
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- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781409466765
1409466760
9781317180463
1317180461
9781317180456
1317180453 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781409466758
1409466752
9781315567297 - Notes:
- Note: Print version record.
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