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Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids / / Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero
| Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids / / Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero |
| Autore | Loxton Daniel <1975-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
| Disciplina | 001.944 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cryptozoology
Animals, Mythical Pseudoscience |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-231-52681-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: SHOW ME THE BODY -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Cryptozoology: Real science or pseudoscience? -- 2. Bigfoot: The sasquatch -- 3. The Yeti: The abominable snowman -- 4. Nessie: The loch ness monster -- 5. The evolution of the sea serpent: From hippocamp to cadborosaurus -- 6. Mokele mbembe: The congo dinosaur -- 7. Why do people believe in monsters? The complexity of cryptozoology -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463117403321 |
Loxton Daniel <1975->
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| New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids / / Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero
| Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids / / Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero |
| Autore | Loxton Daniel <1975-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 411 pages) |
| Disciplina | 001.944 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cryptozoology
Animals, Mythical Pseudoscience |
| ISBN | 0-231-52681-4 |
| Classificazione | WH 5000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cryptozoology : Real science or pseudoscience? -- Bigfoot : The sasquatch -- The yeti : The abominable snowman -- Nessie : The Loch Ness monster -- The evolution of the sea serpent : From hippocamp to cadborosaurus --Mokele mbembe : The Congo dinosaur -- Why do people believe in monsters? : The complexity of cryptozoology. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787560003321 |
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Loxton Daniel <1975->
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| New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids / / Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero
| Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids / / Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero |
| Autore | Loxton Daniel <1975-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 411 pages) |
| Disciplina | 001.944 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cryptozoology
Animals, Mythical Pseudoscience |
| ISBN | 0-231-52681-4 |
| Classificazione | WH 5000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cryptozoology : Real science or pseudoscience? -- Bigfoot : The sasquatch -- The yeti : The abominable snowman -- Nessie : The Loch Ness monster -- The evolution of the sea serpent : From hippocamp to cadborosaurus --Mokele mbembe : The Congo dinosaur -- Why do people believe in monsters? : The complexity of cryptozoology. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808631203321 |
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Loxton Daniel <1975->
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| New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Anthropology and cryptozoology : researching encounters with mysterious creatures / / edited by Samantha Hurn
| Anthropology and cryptozoology : researching encounters with mysterious creatures / / edited by Samantha Hurn |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 001.944 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HurnSamantha |
| Collana | Multispecies Encounters |
| Soggetto topico |
Monsters - Psychological aspects
Cryptozoology Anthropology |
| ISBN |
1-315-56729-6
1-317-18045-3 1-317-18046-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910149532703321 |
| New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hunting monsters
| Hunting monsters |
| Autore | Darren Naish |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Arcturus |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 p.) |
| Disciplina | 001.944 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cryptozoology
Monsters |
| ISBN | 1-78428-191-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910158907703321 |
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Darren Naish
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| Arcturus | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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