Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction: Monsters and Change Yasmine Musharbash and Geir Henning Presterudstuen -- 1 Monsters and Fear of Highway Travel in Ancient Greece and Rome Debbie Felton -- 2 Gods as Monsters: Insatiable Appetites, Exceeding Interpretations, and a Surfeit of Life Indira Arumugam -- 3 Pangkarlangu, Wonder, Extinction Yasmine Musharbash -- 4 Decline and Resilience of Eastern Penan Monsters Mikael Rothstein -- 5 Monster Mash: What Happens When Aboriginal Monsters Are Co-opted into the Mainstream? Christine Judith Nicholls -- 6 Margt býr í þokunni-What Dwells in the Mist? Helena Onnudottir and Mary Hawkins -- 7 Bird/Monsters and Contemporary Social Fears in the Central Desert of Australia Georgia Curran -- 8 The Nine-night Siege: Kurdaitcha at the Interface of Warlpiri/Non-Indigenous Relations Joanne Thurman -- 9 Monsters, Place, and Murderous Winds in Fiji Geir Henning Presterudstuen -- 10 Terror and the Territory Cults: Pregnancy and Power in Monsoon Asia Holly High -- 11 Drawing in the Margins: My Son's Arsenal of Monsters-(Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood Rozanna Lilley -- Afterword: Scenes from the Monsterbiome Michael Dylan Foster -- Index.