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Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia - An Anthropological Perspective (Hardcover)
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Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia - An Anthropological Perspective (Hardcover)
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The book examines 'wildmen', images of hairy humanlike creatures
known to rural villagers and other local people in Southeast Asia
and elsewhere. Sometimes described in considerable detail, the
creatures are reported as still living or as having survived until
recent times. The aim of the book is to discover the source of
these representations and their status in local systems of
knowledge, partly in relation to distinct categories of spiritual
beings, known animals, and other human groups. It explores images
of the wildman from throughout Southeast Asia, focusing in
particular on the Indonesian islands, and beyond, including the
Asian mainland, Africa, North America, Africa, Australia, and
Oceania. The book reveals how, in Southeast Asia and elsewhere,
'wildmen' cannot readily be explained as imaginary constructs
rooted in cultural values and social institutions, nor as simply
another kind of 'spirit'. Also critically examined is a view of
such figures as fundamentally similar expressions of a pan-human
mental 'archetype'. Forth concludes that many Asian and African
figures are grounded in experience or memories of anthropoid apes
supplemented by encounters with ethnic others. Representations
developed among European immigrants (including the North American
'sasquatch') are, in part, similarly traceable to an indirect
knowledge of primates, informed by long-standing European
representations of hairy humans that have coloured western views of
non-western peoples and which may themselves originate in ancient
experience of apes. At the same time, the book demonstrates how
Indonesian and other Malayo-Polynesian images cannot be explained
in the same way, and explores the possibility of these reflecting
an ancient experience of non-sapiens hominins.
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