Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond

1. Introduction: Monsters, Anthropology, and Monster Studies; Yasmine Musharbash 2. Cave Men, Luminoids and Dragons: Monstrous Creatures Mediating Relationships between People and Country in Aboriginal Northern Australia; Joanne Thurman 3. Monstrous Transformations: A Case Study from Central Australia; Yasmine Musharbash 4. Specters of Reality; Mamu in the Eastern Western Desert of Australia; Ute Eickelkamp 5. A Murder of Monsters: Terror and Morality in an Aboriginal Religion; John Morton 6. Burnt Woman of the Mission: Gender and Horror in an Aboriginal Settlement in Northern New South Wales; Mahnaz Alimardanian 7. Demons Within: Maleficent Manifestations in the Hare Krishna Movement; Malcolm Haddon 8. Ghosts and the Everyday Politics of Race in Fiji; Geir Henning Presterudstuen 9. Entanglements Between Tao People and Anito and LAnyu Island, Taiwan; Leberecht Funk 10. When Goblins Come to Town: The Ethnography of Urban Hauntings in Georgia; Paul Manning 11. The Workings of Monsters: Of Monsters and Humans in Icelandic Society; Helena Onnudottir 12. Afterword: Strangerhood Pragmatics, and Place in the Dialectics of Monster and Norm; Rupert Stasch