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

  1. 1 2 "Gregory Forth". University of Alberta Department of Anthropology. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 Corbey, Raymond (Winter 2009). "The folk zoology of Southeast Asian wildmen" (PDF). International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter. 52. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  3. ↑ Ly, Laura. "Everything old is new again". Work of Arts. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
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