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Monster Anthropology Dr Geir Henning Presterudstuen

Monster Anthropology By Dr Geir Henning Presterudstuen

Monster Anthropology by Dr Geir Henning Presterudstuen


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Summary

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

Monster Anthropology Summary

Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters by Dr Geir Henning Presterudstuen

- Putting monsters at the center of social analysis opens up new perspectives on change and social transformation.

- Provides a series of ethnographically grounded cross-cultural analyses

- By taking the proposition that monsters and the humans they haunt are intricately and intimately entangled seriously, this book offers unique perspectives on how people perceive the world and their place within it

About Dr Geir Henning Presterudstuen

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

Table 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 byr i thokunni - 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

Additional information

NLS9781032081762
9781032081762
1032081767
Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters by Dr Geir Henning Presterudstuen
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-08-02
248
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