Gregory Forth
Gregory Forth is a 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]
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.