Monster Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters
Redaktion: Musharbash, Yasmine; Presterudstuen, Geir Henning

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Monsters are culturally meaningful across the world. Starting from this key premise, this book tackles monsters in the context of social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000182354
• Artikelnr.: 59574419

Autorenporträt

Yasmine Musharbash is Senior Lecturer at Australian National University, Australia.Geir Henning Presterudstuen is Lecturer at Western Sydney University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsContributor biographiesIntroduction: Monsters and Change
Yasmine Musharbash and Geir Henning Presterudstuen1. Monsters and Fear of Highway Travel in Ancient Greece and Rome
Debbie Felton2. Gods as Monsters: Insatiable Appetites
Exceeding Interpretations and A Surfeit of Life
Indira Arumugam3. Pangkarlangu
Wonder
Extinction
Yasmine Musharbash4. Decline and Resilience of Eastern Penan Monsters
Mikael Rothstein5. Monster Mash: What Happens When Aboriginal Monsters are Co-Opted into the Mainstream
Christine Judith Nicholls6. Margt býr í þokunni - What Dwells in the Mist? Helena Onnudottir and Mary Hawkins7. Bird/Monsters and Contemporary Social Fears in the Central Desert of Australia
Georgia Curran8. The Nine-Night Siege: Kurdaitcha at the Interface of Warlpiri/Non-Indigenous Relations
Joanne Thurman9. Monsters
Place
and Murderous Winds in Fiji
Geir Henning Presterudstuen10. Terror and the Territory Cults: Pregnancy and Power in Monsoon Asia
Holly High11. Drawing in the Margins: My Son's Arsenal of Monsters - (Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood
Rozanna LilleyAfterword: Scenes from the Monsterbiome
Michael Dylan FosterBibliography Index