The Mob, Vegas, and Tea

Over on the University of Chicago Press' blog, they have posted a fascinating conversation between two authors--Joshua Blu Buhs and Sigrid Schmalzer--who both have written about wildmen, namely Bigfoot and the yeren (China's answer to America's Bigfoot).

I interviewed Buhs about his book Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend recently, so I was excited to see further sociological discussion about these legends.

The conversation spans the way that wildmen represent the possibility of extinction and the horrors of civilization to people who love the beast so much that they give up family and friends in their hunt for it.

This great discussion starts here:
Bigfoot and the yeren: a conversation about wildmen