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Between Ape and Human
- An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people talking about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that once lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano. Over the years he continued to record what locals had to say about these mystery hominoids while searching for ways to explain them as imaginary symbols of the wild or other cultural representations.
In Between Ape and Human, we follow Forth on the trail of this mystery hominoid, and the space they occupy in islanders' culture as both natural creatures and as supernatural beings. In a narrative filled with adventure, Lio culture and language, zoology and natural history, Forth comes to a startling and controversial conclusion.
Unique, important, and thought-provoking, this book will appeal to anyone interested in human evolution, the survival of species (including our own), and how humans might relate to 'not-quite-human' animals. A must-listen for all those interested in cryptozoology, it is the only firsthand investigation by a leading anthropologist into the possible survival of a primitive species of human into recent times—and its coexistence with modern humans.
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- Darren
- 27-05-23
Too statistical. Difficult to get into.
clearly a lot of research, but for me far too academic. imagine a book written about a book of statistics. couldn't get to the end
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- Anonymous User
- 14-11-23
Fascinating and Accessible Work of Research and Theory
Having just finished Between Ape and Human, I can say I greatly enjoyed listening to and can thoroughly recommend it. Forth does well to break down what has the potential to be a fairly hefty and inaccessible piece of anthropology research on the Lio people of Flores for a reader/listener, like myself, with no background in academic anthropology.
Whether or not one is convinced by his hypothesis, his passion for his work and academic interest in the topic and people he studies is beyond question.
The relatively narrow focus of his work is clearly on the Apemen described by Lio is laudable, though it would have been interesting for him to provide greater comment on how the Lio’s understanding of the concept of knowledge differs from Westerners, something he repeatedly hints at but (to my memory) avoids exploring too comprehensively, though this is probably out of an understandable fear of diluting or losing the focus of the book.
The only challenge I had with accessing the work was trying to keep track of all the characters and their distinct stories with Apemen. Forth covers so many Lio encounters which he refers to by the person’s name (E.g. ‘Tom’s encounter’ or ‘Bob’s experience’) that it can be hard to keep track of which name relates to which story. This is not especially Forth’s fault and the issue was probably exacerbated by consuming the work as an audiobook rather than reading it on paper.
Overall, a very engaging and surprisingly accessible piece of work that can be enjoyed regardless of the degree to which one is convinced by the author’s ultimate argument.
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