Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond
Author | : Y. Musharbash |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-11-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137448651 |
ISBN-13 | : 1137448652 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Download or read book Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond written by Y. Musharbash and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.