Manlike monsters on trial [[electronic resource] ] : early records and modern evidence / / edited by Marjorie M. Halpin, Michael M. Ames

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : University of British Columbia Press, c1980
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Disciplina: 001.944
• Soggetto topico: Sasquatch; Yeti; Monsters
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HalpinMarjorie M. <1937-> AmesMichael M. <1933-2006.>
• Note generali: Papers occasioned by a conference on "Sasquatch and Similar Phenomena" convened in May, 1978, by the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography: p. [316]-334.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""I: MONSTERS IN THE FORESTS OF THE MIND""; ""Investigating the Goblin Universe""; ""Sasquatch and Scientists: Reporting Scientific Anomalies""; ""The Unwanted Possession: The Origin of Monsters from a Psychoanalytic Point of View""; ""Medieval Monsters""; ""The Concept of L'Homme Sauvage""; ""Sasquatch-like Creatures in Newfoundland: A Study in the Problems of Belief, Perception, and Reportage""; ""The Cultural Role of Monsters in Canada""; ""II: MANLIKE MONSTERS OF THE NATIVE NEW WORLD"" ; ""In Myth The Witiko: Algonkian Knowledge and Whiteman Knowledge""""Windigo Goes South: Stoneclad among the Cherokees""; ""Monsters and the Quest for Balance in Native Northwest California""; ""Monsters and the Anthropologist's Reality""; ""In Art The Familiar and the Grotesque: The Roots of Monster-Making in a Mexican Indian Village""; ""Man, Beast, and Transformation in Canadian Inuit Art and Culture""; ""The Tsimshian Monkey Mask and the Sasquatch""; ""Carved Stone Heads of the Columbia River and the Sasquatch""; ""III: CONTEMPORARY SASQUATCH INVESTIGATION""; ""What is the Sasquatch?"" ; ""Sasquatch: The Testimony of Tradition""""Ethnographic Information on a Wild Man of the Caucasus""; ""Population Clines of the North American Sasquatch as Evidenced by Track Lengths and Estimated Statures""; ""Estimates of Pitch and Vocal Tract Length from Recorded Vocalizations of Purported Bigfoot""; ""Analysis of Feces and Hair Suspected to be of Sasquatch Origin""; ""Epilogue to Manlike Monsters on Trial""; ""Bibliography: Published Materials Concerning the ""Abominable Snowman,"" the Yeti, the Sasquatch, and Related Hominidae""
• Titolo autorizzato: Manlike monsters on trial
• ISBN: 1-283-22676-6; 9786613226761; 0-7748-5785-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456333803321
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