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Tracking the weretiger : supernatural man-eaters of India, China and southeast Asia / Patrick Newman.
- Title
- Tracking the weretiger : supernatural man-eaters of India, China and southeast Asia / Patrick Newman.
- Author
- Newman, Patrick, 1961-
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2012.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 208 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "little tigers," or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work based on extensive research, written in a lively style"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A colonial menace : jungle-wallahs and man-eaters -- People and tigers : together in life and death -- Killers and killed : propitiation and appeasement -- Fithting back : jungle-wallahs to the rescue -- Shapeshifters all : like weretiger, like werewolf -- Tigermen in Malaya : negritos and Jambi men accused -- Beast people : weretigers and wereleopards in India -- Beast master : the withe Sadhu and the ultimate terror.
- ISBN
- 9780786472185 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786472189 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012029671
- OCLC
- 794708250
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library