Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond

Book Overview

Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe, and their presence is inextricably intertwined with the lives of those they haunt.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349501298
• ISBN13: 9781349501298
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"