Monster studies is a growing academic discipline, but while religious studies and pop culture have made important contributions, anthropology and other disciplines have not had the representation and contribution they deserve for a truly multidisciplinary approach to the subject. So goes part of the argument of Yasmine Musharbash, an anthropologist who has done important work in the ethnography of various Australian indigenous peoples whose lives are intertwined with monsters as a daily lived reality.
Musharbash is Senior Lecturer and Head Discipline (Anthropology) at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. She conducts participant observation-based research in Central Australia including their interaction with monsters. She has been involved with a number of books including Monster Anthropology in Australia and Beyond (2014), Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds through Monsters (2020), and the forthcoming Living with Monsters: Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters.
Monster Anthropology in Australia and Beyond: https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Anthropology-Australasia-Beyond-Musharbash-ebook/dp/B00QQLH02S/
Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds through Monsters: https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Anthropology-Yasmine-Musharbash/dp/1032081767/
Living with Monsters: Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/living-with-monsters-ethnographic-fiction-about-real-monsters/
Contemporary Monsters in Central Australia: https://vimeo.com/348706473
Colonialism & Monsters: Yasmine Musharbash on Monster Anthropology & Social Transformation: https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2021/05/03/ep-74-monsters/
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