Author: Kathy Moskowitz Strain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780888396501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Many stories involved fearsome creatures with supernatural powers. One of these creatures, now known as Bigfoot, passed beyond the realm of native lore and has become firmly entrenched in modern culture - for we too have seen this mysterious being. For countless ages before Europeans set foot in North America, native people inhabited the vast arctic regions, forests, deserts, and plains. They lived off the bountiful land, and developed unique cultures with stories of their heroes and adventures that have been passed down through successive generations. Many stories involved fearsome creatures with supernatural powers, believed to wander the land in a shadowy existence somewhere between reality and the unknown. One of these creatures, now known as Bigfoot, passed beyond the realm of native lore and has become firmly entrenched in modern culture - for we too have seen this mysterious being. Kathy Moskowitz Strain, a professional archaeologist and anthropologist with the U.S. Forest Service in California, presents in this volume a collection of verbatim stories from 55 native cultures that tell of giants, cannibals, and monsters in North America. We are taken to the campfires where such stories have been repeated for thousands of years by native elders and warriors. The work has been skillfully arranged with native culture profiles and hundreds of photographs of the respective native people in their various walks of life. Above all, this book is an adventure into the inner circles of our aboriginal people. It provides a unique insight into a part of their mythology, values, and spirituality. For those interested in this fascinating branch of human knowledge, this work is invaluable.
Author: Carol Rose
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393322118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe the imaginary creatures found in legends, religions, folklore, oral history, and theologies around the world.
Author: Surekha Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316546128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could – or should – be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion.
Author: Mark A. Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938398407
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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THE BOOK THAT BREAKS A CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL TABOO! Do giant primates larger than gorillas, taller than Sasquatch and Yetis, still exist in the remotest corners of the globe? Famed cryptozoologists Mark A. Hall and Loren Coleman join forces to share their knowledge of this unexplored and neglected topic in cryptozoology. Bigfoot researchers have long been mystified, even embarrassed, by reports of giant hairy apes larger than Bigfoot, and as a result eyewitness reports of what Hall and Coleman call True Giants have never been fully considered in the broader zoological context. Reviewing the evidence found in traditions and footprints, folklore and sightings, the authors of this groundbreaking volume present for the first time in one place the wide-ranging argument for the possible survival of a giant species of primate that we know lived on Earth for millions of years. MARK A. HALL is the author of Thunderbirds: America's Living Legends of Giant Birds. LOREN COLEMAN, author of Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America and The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates, Together they have been studying the question of True Giants and their kin for fifty years.
Author: Persephone Braham
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611487072
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin America’s most dynamic monsters can be traced to archetypes that are found in virtually all of the world's sacred traditions, but only in Latin America did Amazons, cannibals, zombies, and other monsters become enduring symbols of regional history, character, and identity. From Amazons to Zombies presents a comprehensive account of the qualities of monstrosity, the ways in which monsters function within and among cultures, and theories and genres of the monstrous. It describes the genesis and evolution of monsters in the construction and representation of Latin America from the Ancient world and early modern Iberia to the present.
Author: Ctlin Avramescu
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691152195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Annotation Based on the research he undertook in rare book collections housed in Scotland, the United States, Finland, Iceland, Holland, Germany and Austria, the author presents a systematic history of cannabalism as reflected in the mirror of philosophy.
Author: Leon Pfaller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998215303
Category : Sasquatch
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Anyone today can just say- "I saw Bigfoot," or "I saw Sasquatch." But how many of these people are lying, and how many are telling the truth? Let's explore a lesser possibility in the gap of credibility of those who claim to have encountered Bigfoot/ Sasquatch in the past. As we find, verify, and re-evaluate stories told among North America's first inhabitants- the Native Americans. Hopeful, but doubtful, in his quest for answers Leon Pfaller (the author)- reveals- that not only do 90% of North America's Native American Indians have stories that- verify- the true existence of this giant, but they also have many different names, among various tribes, for the same described being. As well as stories of this giant's behavior (everything from stealing fish to human-abduction) all to- reveal- the same described thing- people still claim to have encounters with- in our woods of North America- Bigfoot/Sasquatch! This is in a non-fiction book which is cited and sourced from hundreds of literary examples. From the Great explorer Samuel de Champlain's diary from 1603, to Jose Mariano Mociño's book from 1792. To Eskimo accounts gathered from early 1800's Russian explorers, to stories gathered from Southern California's Mission Indians by Spanish Priests in the late 1700's. As well as stories told among Daniel Boone, "Buffalo" Bill Cody, various Reverends, ministers, missionaries, Generals, and even a U.S. President? Yes (Theodore Roosevelt)- All inside this book! Cited and sourced from various books on the subject- to various University texts (having nothing to do with the subject of "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch") that- reveal- the same described creature- by many different names- from various, original (uncontaminated) Native American Indian accounts. Can hundreds of literary sources that all point, in the same direction, to the same described thing- all be wrong? It also leads one not to argue, but to- agree- with what appears to be a major discovery which has been taking place, and has actually been recorded among a roll-call of historic figures- even before the inception of our Great Country.
Author: Sir John Mandeville
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199600600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. A captivating blend of fact and fantasy, Mandeville's Book is newly translated in an edition that brings us closer to Mandeville's worldview.
Author: Homerus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: Asa Simon Mittman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351894315
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.
