Ch.14 looks at transforming into wolves through fur & fashion, revealing questions of culture/nature, gender & use of indigenous peoples in Victorian weres & C21 photoshoots. Book launch 29 Feb !

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2020-02-15

Ch.3 Sam George explores the nature/culture dialectic through accounts of those wild children said to have been raised by wolves; ideas of the origin of culture & our relation to nature emerge. Book launch 29 Feb, !

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2020-02-04

Ch.2 Garry Marvin gives an anthropological account of how the wolf is seen differently in pastoral & hunter cultures, connecting it to the image of the wolf in contemporary rewilding debates. Book launch 29 Feb, !

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2020-02-03

When researching his novel 'Dracula' (1897), Bram Stoker read Sabine Baring-Gould's 'The Book of Werewolves' (1865). Baring-Gould describes werewolves as having mono-brows and the werewolf boy, Jean Grenier, as having protruding canine teeth. Very familiar.

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2020-02-02

BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF

It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a WEREWOLF; young men are slow in seeking one of SEVEN sisters in marriage.

Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865

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