Why Sasquatch and Other Crypto‐Beasts Haunt Our Imaginations. (27th September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Simon, Edward
• Is Part Of: Anthropology of consciousness. Volume 28:Number 2(2017)
• Page Start: 117
• Page End: 120
• Publication Date: 2017-09-27
• Subjects: interbeing -- archetype -- pastoral -- sasquatch -- tempest; Consciousness -- Periodicals; Anthropology -- Periodicals; 128
• DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12072
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1053-4202

Abstract

Abstract: The Sasquatch pastoral attempts to define the parameters of why mythic accounts of wild‐men are so common. As a concept, it is a critically useful way of understanding how Sasquatch, Bigfoot, the Yeti, and other cryptozoological accounts fulfill a deep‐seated and seemingly universal desire to understand humanity's own mythic origins. Whether such accounts have any veracity or not, the Sasquatch pastoral provides a theoretical vocabulary for conceptualizing the archetypal attractions of such accounts.