Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond
(Sprache: Englisch)
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,...
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond “
1. Introduction: Monsters, Anthropology, and Monster Studies; Yasmine Musharbash 2. Cave Men, Luminoids and Dragons: Monstrous Creatures Mediating Relationships between People and Country in Aboriginal Northern Australia; Joanne Thurman 3. Monstrous Transformations: A Case Study from Central Australia; Yasmine Musharbash 4. Specters of Reality; Mamu in the Eastern Western Desert of Australia; Ute Eickelkamp 5. A Murder of Monsters: Terror and Morality in an Aboriginal Religion; John Morton 6. Burnt Woman of the Mission: Gender and Horror in an Aboriginal Settlement in Northern New South Wales; Mahnaz Alimardanian 7. Demons Within: Maleficent Manifestations in the Hare Krishna Movement; Malcolm Haddon 8. Ghosts and the Everyday Politics of Race in Fiji; Geir Henning Presterudstuen 9. Entanglements Between Tao People and Anito and LAnyu Island, Taiwan; Leberecht Funk 10. When Goblins Come to Town: The Ethnography of Urban Hauntings in Georgia; Paul Manning 11. The Workings of Monsters: Of Monsters and Humans in Icelandic Society; Helena Onnudottir 12. Afterword: Strangerhood Pragmatics, and Place in the Dialectics of Monster and Norm; Rupert Stasch
Autoren-Porträt
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, Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, Alice Springs, Australia
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2014, 1st ed., 228 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Musharbash, Y.; Presterudstuen, G.
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1349501298
- ISBN-13: 9781349501298
Sprache:
Englisch
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