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Anatomy of a Beast
Michael McLeod
其他書名
Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
出版Univ of California Press, 2009
主題Nature / Animals / GeneralBody, Mind & Spirit / Unexplained PhenomenaScience / Earth Sciences / GeneralSocial Science / Folklore & Mythology
ISBN05202698619780520269866
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cbMwDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning journalist Michael McLeod tells of Bigfoot's rise to tabloid stardom in a fast-paced account that begins with his own journey to investigate a famous 1967 film clip of a Bigfoot in a California forest. McLeod proceeds to uncover a trail of clues reaching from the late nineteenth century, when a few ambitious, imaginative naturalists and explorers synthesized historical and indigenous folklore with Darwinian ideas and speculated that a proto-hominid "missing link" might still be alive in remote areas. That speculation would eventually inspire a colorful cast of loggers, hunters, con artists, and businessmen in the twentieth century to create the modern myth of Bigfoot, all of them angling for a piece of a monster that the media and the public still can't get enough of. Told through vividly narrated interviews and anecdotes, Anatomy of a Beast offers a unique perspective on the deep roots of counterfactual thinking—and how obsession and myth are created out of it.