Gregory L. Forth is a retired professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta. He earned his PhD from University of Oxford in 1980. Beginning in 1986, Forth was a professor at the University of Alberta for over thirty years.[1][2] Forth is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[3]
As a social anthropologist, Forth's position is both structuralist and interpretivist.[4] He is known for his contributions to ethnoscience.[4]
Forth has conducted fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, and has worked with the Kéo and Nage of Flores island.[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.[5]
In February 2023, Forth suggests in his book, Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid, based on stories told by natives of Flores, Indonesia, that the diminutive humanoid Homo floresiensis could still be alive in Indonesia, citing indigenous accounts of the folk creature ebu gogo or the lai ho'a.[6][7]
Publications
edit- Rindi: an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in eastern Sumba. Brill. January 1, 1981. ISBN 978-90-24-76169-2.
- The language of number and numerical ability in Eastern Sumba. Centre for South-East Asian Studies. 1985.
- Space and place in Eastern Indonesia. University of Kent at Canterbury, Centre of South-East Asian Studies. 1991.
- Beneath the volcano. KITLV Press. 1998. ISBN 978-90-6718-120-4.
- Dualism and hierarchy. Oxford University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-823424-1.
- Nage birds. Routledge. 2003. ISBN 978-0-415-31827-3.
- Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective. Routledge. December 10, 2008. ISBN 978-0710313546.
References
edit- ^ Forth, Gregory (1989). "Animals, Witches, and Wind: Eastern Indonesian Variations on the "Thunder Complex"". Anthropos. 84 (1/3): 89–106. JSTOR 40461676. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ Forth, Gregory (3 May 2022). Between Ape and Human. Pegasus Books. ISBN 9781639361434. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Ly, Laura. "Everything old is new again". Work of Arts. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- ^ Hamks, Micah (15 February 2023). "A Humanlike 'Living Fossil" Cold Still Be Alive In Indonesia, This Anthropologist Says". TheDebrief.org. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
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