Monster Anthropology : Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters.
Geir Henning. Presterudstuen
Bok Engelsk 2019 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Bloomsbury Academic
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (224 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction: Monsters and Change -- 1 Monsters and Fear of Highway Travel in Ancient Greece and Rome -- 2 Gods as Monsters: Insatiable Appetites, Exceeding Interpretations, and a Surfeit of Life -- 3 Pangkarlangu, Wonder, Extinction -- 4 Decline and Resilience of Eastern Penan Monsters -- 5 Monster Mash: What Happens When Aboriginal Monsters Are Co-opted into the Mainstream? -- 6 Margt býr í þokunni-What Dwells in the Mist? -- 7 Bird/Monsters and Contemporary Social Fears in the Central Desert of Australia -- 8 The Nine-night Siege: Kurdaitcha at the Interface of Warlpiri/Non-Indigenous Relations -- 9 Monsters, Place, and Murderous Winds in Fiji -- 10 Terror and the Territory Cults: Pregnancy and Power in Monsoon Asia -- 11 Drawing in the Margins: My Son's Arsenal of Monsters-(Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood -- Afterword: Scenes from the Monsterbiome -- Index -- Imprint.
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| ISBN | 1-000-18553-2. - 1-350-09627-X
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