Hawks: Stalking the wild ebu gogo
- From: "rmacfarl" <rmacfarl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 25 Jun 2005 01:00:05 -0700
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Stalking the wild ebu gogo
In the current issue of Anthropology Today, there is a great article by
Greg Forth (University of Alberta), covering the ebu gogo legend, and
the impact of the Liang Bua discoveries on the local peoples of Flores.
Many thanks to reader Rob Kruszynski for the reference.
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For Forth, the assumption that ebu gogo is "just another myth" is
tantamount to assuming that "small-scale, non-Western societies are
incapable of distinguishing empirical categories, the objects of
ordinary intuition, from fantastic images dictated by religious
tradition" (ibid.).
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>>From where I sit, large-scale Western societies "are incapable of
distinguishing empirical categories, the objects of ordinary intuition,
from fantastic images dictated by religious tradition" (ref. Sasquatch,
Yowie, Yeti etc.), so why would the local peoples of Flores be any
different?
Ross Macfarlane
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