The Necessary Other, or 'When One Needs a Monster': The Return of the Australian Yowie — AusFigures public-text record

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The Necessary Other, or 'When One Needs a Monster': The Return of the Australian Yowie

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2002
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The Necessary Other, or 'When One Needs a Monster': The Return of the Australian Yowie

Public OpenAlex metadata record for a published work matching 'Yowie'. Work type: article. Publication/source: RUNE (Research UNE). Location signal is figure-associated region (Australia), not a verified event place. Abstract excerpt: 1907, 1937. As early as 1907, R.H. Mathews had reported the "Yar…

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761
Year
2,002
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Record ID
761
Source
OpenAlex
Publication
RUNE (Research UNE)
Author
Ryan, John Sprott
Published
2002-01-01
Narrative type
Hairy Humanoid and Wild-Person Accounts
Public-text label
Yowie
Archive period
Digital Era
Location
Australia (Australia): low
Source voice
Scholar
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Public OpenAlex metadata record for a published work matching 'Yowie'. Work type: article. Publication/source: RUNE (Research UNE). Location signal is figure-associated region (Australia), not a verified event place. Abstract excerpt: 1907, 1937. As early as 1907, R.H. Mathews had reported the "Yaruma", a traditional belief from the south-east corner of New South Wales. On the north coast (W.J. Enright, 'Mankind', June 1937), the creature was the "Jarra-Wahu" or "Yerri-Wahoo", and around Mudgee and Maitland the "Yahu". Some of these names were said, like "Yowie", to mean "hairyman". --(Patricia and Peter Wrightson, 'The Wrightson List of Aborigina

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