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020 _a9781315567297
_q(e-book : PDF)
020 _a9781317180449
_q(e-book: Mobi)
020 _z9781409466758
_q(hardback)
024 7 _a10.4324/9781315567297
_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)962306117
050 4 _aQL89
_b.A58 2017
082 0 4 _a001.944
_bA628
245 0 0 _aAnthropology and cryptozoology :
_bresearching encounters with mysterious creatures /
_cedited by Samantha Hurn.
264 1 _aNew York, N.Y. :
_bRoutledge,
_c2017.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages)
490 1 _aMultispecies encounters
505 0 _a1. The place of cryptids in taxonomic debates / Stephanie S. Turner -- 2. Cryptids, classification and categories of cats : an ethnozoological study of unidentified felids from eastern Indoneasia / Gregory Forth -- 3. Cryptid and credulity : the Zanzibar leopard and other imaginary beings / Martin T. Walsh and Helle V. Goldman -- 4. The Naga tiger-man and the modern assemblage of a myth / Michael Heneise -- 5. Human predation and animal sociality : the transformational agency of 'wolf people' in Mongolia / Mette M. High -- 6. Enigmatic bush dwarfs of West Africa : the case of the siyawesi of northwestern Benin / Sharon Merz -- 7. Suspending disbelief and experienceing the extraordinary : how radical participation may facilitate an understanding of aquatic snakes and fish-tailed beings in southern Africa / Penelope Bernard -- 8. Mermaids in Brazil : the (ongoing) creolisation of the water goddesses Oxum and Iemanja / Bettina E. Schmidt -- 9. Ganka : trickster or endangered species? An anthropologist's role in preventing the extinction of the New Jersey sea monster / Tanya J. King -- 10. Far from the madding crowd : big cats on Dartmoor and in Dorset, UK / Adrian Franklin -- 11. Land of beasts and dragons : contemporary myth-making in rural Wales / Samantha Hurn -- 12. Digesting 'cryptid' snakes : a phenomenological approach to the mythic and cosmogenetic properties of serpent hallucinations / Luci Attalla.
650 0 _aMonsters
_xPsychological aspects.
650 0 _aCryptozoology.
650 0 _aAnthropology.
700 1 _aHurn, Samantha.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781409466758
_w(DLC) 2016020583
830 0 _aMultispecies encounters.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315567297
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