TY - BOOK ID - 77878352 TI - Bigfoot PY - 2009 SN - 1282239759 9786612239755 0226502155 9780226502151 0226079791 9780226079790 9781282239753 6612239751 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Sasquatch. KW - Folklore. KW - Folk beliefs KW - Folk-lore KW - Traditions KW - Ethnology KW - Manners and customs KW - Material culture KW - Mythology KW - Oral tradition KW - Storytelling KW - Big foot (Creature) KW - Bigfoot KW - Monsters KW - sasquatch, ape-like, creature, north america, folklore, hoax, wild men, abominable snowman, woodlands, lore, misinformation, stories, tall tales, fascination, hunters, discovery, wilderness, individuality, consumerism, media, skepticism, beast, enthusiasm, history, historical, yeti, sensation, evidence, albert ostman, debunking, death, mystery, cryptozoology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77878352 AB - 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.With Bigfoot, Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and wooly story of America's favorite homegrown monster. He begins with nineteenth-century accounts of wildmen roaming the forests of America, treks to the Himalayas to reckon with the Abominable Snowman, then takes us to north ER -