Manlike monsters on trial : early records and modern evidence / edited by Marjorie M. Halpin, Michael M. Ames.

Title
  1. Manlike monsters on trial : early records and modern evidence / edited by Marjorie M. Halpin, Michael M. Ames.
Published by
  1. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, c1980.

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Additional authors
  1. Ames, Michael M., 1933-
  2. Halpin, Marjorie M., 1937-
Description
  1. xiv, 336 p., [20] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Monsters > Congresses
  2. Sasquatch > Congresses
  3. Yeti > Congresses
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings.
Contents
  1. Investigating the goblin universe / Marjorie M. Halpin -- Sasquatch and scientists : reporting scientific anomalies / Ron Westrum -- The unwanted possession : the origin of monsters from a psychoanalytic point of view / Wilfrida Ann Mully -- Medieval monsters / David Lyle Jeffrey -- The concept of L'homme sauvage / Olive Patricia Dickason -- Sasquatch-like creatures in Newfoundland : a study in the problems of belief, perception, and reportage / Michael Taft -- The cultural role of monsters in Canada / Carole Henderson Carpenter -- The Witiko : Algonkian knowledge and whiteman knowledge / Richard J. Preston -- Windigo goes south : stoneclad among the Cherokees / Raymond D. Fogelson -- Monsters and the quest for balance in Native northwest California / Thomas Buckley -- Monsters and the anthropologist's reality / Robin Ridington -- The familiar and the grotesque : the roots of monster-making in a Mexican Indian village / Julius Stephen Kassovic -- Man, beast, and transformation in Canadian Inuit art and culture / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- The Tsimshian monkey mask and the Sasquatch / Marjorie M. Halpin -- Carved stone heads of the Columbia River and the Sasquatch / Roderick Sprague -- What is the Sasquatch? / John Green -- Sasquatch : the testimony of tradition / Wayne Suttles -- Ethnographic information on a wild man of the Caucasus / John Colarusso -- Population clines of the North American Sasquatch as evidenced by track lengths and estimated statures / George W. Gill -- Estimates of pitch and vocal tract length from recorded vocalizations of purported Bigfoot / R. Lynn Kirlin and Lasse Hertel -- Analysis of feces and hair suspected to be of Sasquatch origin / Vaughn M. Bryant Jr. and Burleigh Trevor-Deutsch -- Epilogue to Manlike monsters on trial / Michael M. Ames -- Bibliography: Published materials concerning the "abominable snowman," the Yeti, the Sasquatch, and related Hominidae / L.G.M. Ruus.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Papers occasioned by a conference on "Sasquatch and Similar Phenomena" convened in May, 1978, by the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. [316]-334.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain