Bigfoot : the life and times of a legend /

Last August, two men in rural Georgia announced that they had killed Bigfoot. The claim drew instant, feverish attention, leading to more than 1,000 news stories worldwide-despite the fact that nearly everyone knew it was a hoax. Though Bigfoot may not exist, there's no denying Bigfoot mania. W...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buhs, Joshua Blu
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Sasquatch.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Unexplained Phenomena.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Dramatis personae
  • 1. Wildmen
  • Wildmen through history
  • What-is-it
  • The Abominable Snowman
  • The life and times of Bigfoot
  • 2. Yeti : 1951-1959
  • Sensation
  • The Yeti, science, and Zadig's method
  • Britain hunts the Yeti
  • America hunts the Yeti
  • What the evidence told
  • 3. Sasquatch : 1929-1958
  • The great Sasquatch hunt
  • The kidnapping of Albert Ostman
  • "Occam's razor cuts on the side of the Sasquatch"
  • Slick eyes the Sasquatch
  • 4. Big Foot : 1958
  • The folkloric origins of Bigfoot
  • Big Foot makes the papers
  • The confirmed and converted confront Bigfoot
  • Humbug!
  • "Maybe Bigfoot is lost relative of old 'Sasquatch'"
  • 5. ABSMery : 1959-1961
  • The (weird, wacky) wonderful world of Ivan T Sanderson
  • ABSMery
  • The Pacific Northwest Expedition
  • Enter Peter Byrne
  • The wipe : or true's trouble with truth, and Ivan Sanderson's
  • 6. Melting the Snowman : 1961-1967
  • Melting the Snowman
  • Sanderson's failed debunking of the debunking
  • The quiet years
  • Big Foot daze
  • 7. The return of Bigfoot : 1967-1980
  • Bigfoot filmed!
  • Making sense of the movie
  • The return of Bigfoot
  • Bozo, the Minnesota Iceman
  • Bigfoot on tour
  • The secret of Sasquatch
  • 8. A contest for dignity : 1969-1977
  • The Bigfoot community
  • Cripplefoot
  • The center that wasn't
  • Hoaxing, the unconquerable problem
  • The laughter curtain
  • 9. Cryptozoology : 1978-1990
  • Grover Krantz, Sasquatch scientist
  • Anthropology of the unknown
  • Cryptozoology
  • Science police
  • "Definitive proof"
  • Arrested by the science police
  • 10. The death of Bigfoot? 1980-2002
  • The green man
  • The death of Bigfoot
  • "The most abominable hoaxer"
  • Bigfoot is dead! Long live Bigfoot!
  • Not the end, but an end
  • Curse of the Sasquatch
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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