LEADER 04338nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910779146903321 005 20230608225808.0 010 $a1-283-89909-4 010 $a0-8122-0322-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203226 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104545 035 $a(OCoLC)802059457 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576082 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000738434 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11457950 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738434 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10793012 035 $a(PQKB)11696050 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19905 035 $a(DE-B1597)449060 035 $a(OCoLC)979591621 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203226 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441642 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576082 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421159 035 $a(OCoLC)932312571 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441642 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104545 100 $a20020702d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMonsters $eevil beings, mythical beasts, and all manner of imaginary terrors /$fDavid D. Gilmore 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-2088-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$t1. WHY STUDY MONSTERS? --$t2. HOW TO APPROACH MONSTERS --$t3. MONSTERS IN THE WEST, I: THE ANCIENT WORLD --$t4. MONSTERS IN THE WEST, II: THE CHRISTIAN ERA --$t5. WINDIGO: MONSTER OF THE NORTH --$t6. AN AMERICAN MONSTRUARY --$t7. THE OGRES OF ASIA --$t8. JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS --$t9. RITUAL MONSTERS --$t10. OUR MONSTERS, OURSELVES --$tREFERENCES --$tINDEX 330 $aThe human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with visions of looming and ferocious monsters, often in the role as adversaries to great heroes. But while heroes have been closely studied by mythologists, monsters have been neglected, even though they are equally important as pan-human symbols and reveal similar insights into ways the mind works. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations and share so many features across different cultures.Using colorful and absorbing evidence from virtually all times and places, Monsters is the first attempt by an anthropologist to delve into the mysterious, frightful abyss of mythical beasts and to interpret their role in the psyche and in society. After many hair-raising descriptions of monstrous beings in art, folktales, fantasy, literature, and community ritual, including such avatars as Dracula and Frankenstein, Hollywood ghouls, and extraterrestrials, Gilmore identifies many common denominators and proposes some novel interpretations.Monsters, according to Gilmore, are always enormous, man-eating, gratuitously violent, aggressive, sexually sadistic, and superhuman in power, combining our worst nightmares and our most urgent fantasies. We both abhor and worship our monsters: they are our gods as well as our demons. Gilmore argues that the immortal monster of the mind is a complex creation embodying virtually all of the inner conflicts that make us human. Far from being something alien, nonhuman, and outside us, our monsters are our deepest selves. 606 $aMonsters 606 $aAnimals, Mythical 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aMonsters. 615 0$aAnimals, Mythical. 676 $a001.944 700 $aGilmore$b David D.$f1943-$0144225 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779146903321 996 $aMonsters$93757961 997 $aUNINA