Images of the wildman in Southeast Asia
Subtitle: social values, archetypes and existing creatures
By: Gregory Forth.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780710313546; 9780203886243
Subjects: Wild men -- Southeast Asia; Fossil hominids -- Southeast Asia; Legends -- Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia -- Folklore
Genres: Folklore.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The story of ebu gogo; title: Other Florenese hominoids; title: Other eastern islands; title: The "short man" (orang pendek) of Sumatra; title: Wildmen of western Indonesia and mainland Southeast Asia; title: Other Asian hominoids; title: Outside Asia; title: Pacific images; title: What were the ebu gogo?