Monster Anthropology - Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Geir Presterudstuen is Lecturer in Anthropology at Western Sydney University, Australia.Yasmine Musharbash is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Australian National University, Australia

Summary

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

Foreword

This book is a series of ethnographically grounded explorations of social transformation through time and space by looking at the monsters of specific places.

Product details

• Authors: Yasmine Presterudstuen Musharbash, Geir (Western Sydney University Presterudstuen, Geir Henning (Western Sydney Unive Presterudstuen
• Assisted by: Yasmine Musharbash (Editor), Yasmine (University of Sydney Musharbash (Editor), Geir Presterudstuen (Editor), Geir (Western Sydney University Presterudstuen (Editor), Geir Henning Presterudstuen (Editor), Geir Henning (Western Sydney University Presterudstuen (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781350096257
• ISBN: 978-1-350-09625-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Unexplained Phenomena, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Monsters & Legendary Beings