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Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond
. Ed(S): Musharbash, Yasmine; Presterudstuen, Geir Henning
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Description for Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond
Paperback. Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe, and their presence is inextricably intertwined with the lives of those they haunt. Editor(s): Musharbash, Yasmine; Presterudstuen, Geir Henning. Num Pages: 237 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSR; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe, and their presence is inextricably intertwined with the lives of those they haunt.
Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe, and their presence is inextricably intertwined with the lives of those they haunt.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349501298
SKU
V9781349501298
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About . Ed(S): Musharbash, Yasmine; Presterudstuen, Geir Henning
Mahnaz Alimardanian, La Trobe University, Australia Ute Eickelkamp, University of Sydney, Australia Leberecht Funk, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Malcolm Haddon, Macquarie University and the University of Sydney, Australia Paul Manning, Trent University, Canada John Morton, Independent Scholar Yasmine Musharbash, University of Sydney, Australia Helena Onnudottir, University of Western Sydney, Australia Rupert Stasch, Cambridge University, UK Joanne Thurman, ... Read more
Reviews for Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond
“This collection of twelve papers is ‘the first anthropological volume bringing participant-observation-based accounts and analyses of disparate creatures together under the umbrella term monster’ … . I would describe this volume as a collection of ethnographically well-informed essays that should be of interest to anyone involved in the cross-cultural study of epistemology and ontology.” (Gregory Forth, The Asia Pacific Journal ... Read more