Gregory Forth
Gregory Forth is a retired professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta. He earned his PhD from University of Oxford in 1980. Forth is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[1]
As a social anthropologist, Forth's position is both structuralist and interpretivist.[2] He is known for his contributions to ethnoscience.[2]
Forth has conducted fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, and has worked with the Kéo and Nage of Flores island.[1] He believes that the folk creature ebu gogo may in fact be Homo floresiensis.[3]
In November 2020, his book A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society won the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year.[4]
Publications
Forth, Gregory L. 1980. Rindi : an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in Eastern Sumba. PhD diss. Oxford University.
References
- ^ a b "Gregory Forth". University of Alberta Department of Anthropology. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ a b Corbey, Raymond (Winter 2009). "The folk zoology of Southeast Asian wildmen" (PDF). International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter. 52. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- ^ Ly, Laura. "Everything old is new again". Work of Arts. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- ^ "Let it flow: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path wins 42nd Diagram Prize". The Bookseller. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2020.