Exploring Anthropology Through Folklore And Mythology
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Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology
Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology is a comprehensive textbook which examines how people around the world express themselves culturally, and how these practices provide a window into the diversity of human culture. Using a genre-based approach, this book takes a globalized perspective and promotes intercultural exchange and understanding. It presents students with in- depth examples of a wide range of traditions as well as an understanding of how such traditions are studied. In explicating key concepts and applying these to specific practices and performances, we introduce students to the fundamentals in the study of human culture and creativity. Topics include mythology, folktales, legends, dance, music, trance states, magic, the spirit world, internet folklore, festivals, street art, subcultural style, rituals, celebrations, and body art and tattoo traditions. Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology offers a fascinating display of global cultural diversity and is an essential textbook for students making their first steps into the fields of folklore, mythology, anthropology, and cultural studies.
Exploring Anthropology Through Folklore and Mythology
"Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology is a comprehensive textbook which examines how people around the world express themselves culturally, and how these practices and performances provide a window into the diversity of human culture. Using a genre-based approach, this book takes a globalized perspective and promotes intercultural exchange and understanding. It presents students with in-depth examples of a wide range of fascinating traditions, as well as the understanding of how such traditions are studied. In explicating these practices and performances, students will be introduced to the fundamentals in the study of human culture. Topics include myths, folktales, architecture, online folklore, festivals, rituals and celebrations. The book also provides an in-depth look at linking these foundations to field work including guides on observations and interviews. Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology offers a fascinating introduction towards understanding global cultural diversity, and is an essential textbook for students making their first steps into folklore, anthropology and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Anthropology and Cryptozoology
Cryptozoology is best understood as the study of animals which, in the eyes of Western science, are extinct, unclassified or unrecognised. In consequence, and in part because of its selective methods and lack of epistemological rigour, cryptozoology is often dismissed as a pseudo-science. However, there is a growing recognition that social science can benefit from engaging with it, for as as social scientists are very well aware, ’scientific’ categorisation and explanation represents just one of a myriad of systems used by humans to enable them to classify and make sense of the world around them. In many cultural contexts, myth, folk classification and lived experience challenge the ’truth’ expounded by scientists. With a reflexive, anthropological approach and drawing on rich empirical and ethnographic studies from around the world, this volume engages with the theoretical and methodological issues raised by reported sightings of unrecognised animals. Bringing into sharp focus the anthropological value and challenges for methodology posed by beliefs about unclassified creatures, Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Exploring encounters with mysterious creatures will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists and geographers working in the fields of research methods, anthrozoology, mythology and folklore and human-animal interaction.