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Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot - Michael McLeod
Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
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Michael McLeod doesn't simply debunk hoaxes; he critically, but sympathetically, explores the motivations that have driven the 'Bigfoot community' to build an enormous and intricate, if ramshackle, edifice of lore. McLeod has written an anatomy of mythology with implications that go beyond the... show more
Michael McLeod doesn't simply debunk hoaxes; he critically, but sympathetically, explores the motivations that have driven the 'Bigfoot community' to build an enormous and intricate, if ramshackle, edifice of lore. McLeod has written an anatomy of mythology with implications that go beyond the Bigfoot phenomenon. The Bigfoot mythologists' strange, colorful, and sometimes comical, personalities play a big part of this compulsively readable story.—David Rains Wallace, author of The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution"In the same way that dinosaurs and other exotic beasts from Earth's distant and hazy past inspire and fascinate many of us, Bigfoot has captured the imagination of generations of Americans. Here, Michael McLeod approaches the 'Bigfoot phenomenon' in the same way that a detective would follow leads at a crime scene. The result is a delicious case study of human obsession and the fuzzy border between science and pseudoscience."—Chris Beard, author of The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780520255715 (0520255712)
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 238
Edition language: English
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4.0 Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
I finished reading this before bed last night; I was creeped out enough that I couldn't sleep.
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