yuuri men in Cleverman yuuri men context
In the ABC Religion & Ethics Cleverman special, Stan Grant says he was told stories of yuuri men, hairy men who lived underground and marked boundaries, and links those stories to modern ghost-story adaptation.
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- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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- Record ID
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- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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- The Moral Compass Cleverman Special; ABC Religion & Ethics / Geraldine Doogue
- Published
- 2016-06-19
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- Retellings and Adaptations
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- yuuri men
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- Digital Era
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In the ABC Religion & Ethics Cleverman special, Stan Grant says he was told stories of yuuri men, hairy men who lived underground and marked boundaries, and links those stories to modern ghost-story adaptation.
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