Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond [electronic resource] /
Musharbash, Y.editor.
Presterudstuen, G.editor.
Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe, and their presence is inextricably intertwined with the lives of those they haunt.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: Monsters, Anthropology, and Monster Studies; The Meaning of the Term; Monster Realities Are Indeterminate; Monstrous Bodies Rupture Classification; Monsters Are Contingent on the Humans They Haunt; Monsters and Change; Conclusion and Rationale; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Cave Men, Luminoids, and Dragons: Monstrous Creatures Mediating Relationships between People and Country in Aboriginal Northern Australia; Mak Mak Marranunggu Monsters
Monsters Marking the Mak Mak Marranunggu WorldMak Mak Marranunggu Monster Protocols; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Monstrous Transformations: A Case Study from Central Australia; Kurdaitcha and Jarnpa: A Terminological Muddle that Makes Perfect Sense; Traditional Jarnpa; Contemporary Kurdaitcha; Warlpiri Fears, Kurdaitcha, and Death; How to Make Sense of Jarnpa/Kurdaitcha Transformations; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Specters of Reality: Mamu in the Eastern Western Desert of Australia; Cultural Contexts of Interpreting Mamu
Mamu Traits and HabitsWhile Awake during the Night; In Nocturnal Dreams; While Awake during the Day; Hearsay Family Stories of Encounters during the Day; Folklore or Children's Stories; Being Bad; Something Looking Like a Monster; Features, Metamorphoses, Ambivalences; Cats, Dogs, and Dangerous Women; Covering/Uncovering; External Body; Red; Conclusion: Persistence through Versatility; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 5: A Murder of Monsters: Terror and Morality in an Aboriginal Religion; Monsters at Large; Soul Afflictions; Monsters and Gods; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes
ReferencesChapter 6: Burnt Woman of the Mission: Gender and Horror in an Aboriginal Settlement in Northern New South Wales; Burnt Woman's Story: An Open-Ended Narration; Burnt Woman's Dual Nature: The Terrifying Seducer; Burnt Woman's Presence: The Mode of Seduction; Burnt Woman's Active Role: The Gendered Prankster; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Demons Within: Maleficent Manifestations in the HareKrishna Movement; Introduction; Demons in Appearance and Reality; Demons in Scriptural Form; Demons in Human Form; The Demon-Outsider; Demons of the Heart; The Fallen
The Child AbuserEthnographic Demon-Stories; Demons Within; The Appearance of Lord Nrshmadeva; References; Chapter 8: Ghosts and the Everyday Politics of Race in Fiji; Spirits, Ghosts, and Fijian Tradition; Ghost Stories and the Politics of Race; Ghost Stories As a Discursive Genre; Hauntings, Moralities, and Maramarua; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 9: Entanglements between Tao People and Anito on Lanyu Island, Taiwan; Tao-Anito Everyday Entanglements; Tao-Anito Cosmological Entanglements; Tao and Anito: A Problem of Categories; Tao, Anito, and Morality
The Tao Life Cycle, Souls, and Anito
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe, and their presence is inextricably intertwined with the lives of those they haunt.
Culture.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Ethnography.
Ethnology—Asia.
Sociology of Culture.
Anthropology.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Ethnography.
Asian Culture.