Brian Regal. Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology.
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Ritvo, Harriet
Date Issued
April 2015
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The American Historical Review
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University of Chicago Press
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Ritvo, Harriet. “Brian Regal. Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology.” The American Historical Review 120, 2 (April 2015): 586–587 © 2015 American Historical Association
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Abstract
Cryptozoology has been described as the converse of paleontology: that is to say, paleontologists study creatures for which there is evidence, but which no one (at least no human who could leave a record) has ever seen, while cryptozoologists study creatures that have frequently been seen, but for which there is no evidence. Of course there are many other differences between these fields, including the one conspicuously, if facetiously, signaled in Brian Regal's subtitle. Paleontologists tend to be conventionally credentialed scientists; cryptozoologists, however, tend to be amateur enthusiasts. This dichotomy is especially marked among the subset of cryptozoologists who are the focus of Regal's work: those interested in (or often, in his words, obsessed with) the humanlike creature known variously as “sasquatch,” “yeti,” and “bigfoot,” among other things.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History Section
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https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.2.586
