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Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid 2022
Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid is an English-language novel published in 2022 by Canadian anthropologist Gregory Forth, who is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The book was released by Pegasus Books and follows his ethnographic study among the Lio people of east central Flores, Indonesia. Forth documents local stories about small, humanlike beings known as "lai ho'a" (ape-men) and explores possible links to Homo floresiensis, a fossil hominin species found on the island in 2003. His research involved fieldwork between 2003 and 2018, during which he gathered over one hundred testimonies, including more than thirty from individuals claiming to have encountered these creatures. This work is recognized as Forth's first intended for a broad readership. The book sparked scholarly discussion concerning the standards of evidence in anthropology and whether non-sapiens hominins could still exist. It contains 336 pages and was preceded by A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian, published in 2019.
Details
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- ISBN
- 9781639361434
- Pages
- 336
- Format
- Print (hardcover, paperback), e-book, audiobook
