Research Catalog

Details

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