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Monster Anthropology - Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds through Monsters (Paperback)
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Monster Anthropology - Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds through Monsters (Paperback)
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Monsters are culturally meaningful across the world. Starting from
this key premise, this book tackles monsters in the context of
social change. Writing in a time of violent upheaval, when
technological innovation brings forth new monsters while others
perish as part of the widespread extinctions that signify the
Anthropocene, contributors argue that putting monsters at the
center of social analysis opens up new perspectives on change and
social transformation. Through a series of ethnographically
grounded analyses they capture monsters that herald, drive,
experience, enjoy, and suffer the transformations of the worlds
they beleaguer. Topics examined include the evil skulking new roads
in Ancient Greece, terror in post-socialist Laos's territorial
cults, a horrific flying head that augurs catastrophe in the rain
forest of Borneo, benign spirits that accompany people through the
mist in Iceland, flesh-eating giants marching through neo-colonial
central Australia, and ghosts lingering in Pacific villages in the
aftermath of environmental disasters. By taking the proposition
that monsters and the humans they haunt are intricately and
intimately entangled seriously, this book offers unique,
cross-cultural perspectives on how people perceive the world and
their place within it. It also shows how these experiences of
belonging are mediated by our relationships with the
other-than-human.
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