About: Gregory Forth

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Gregory Forth is a retired 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. As a social anthropologist, Forth's position is both structuralist and interpretivist. He is known for his contributions to ethnoscience. Forth has conducted fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, and has worked with the Kéo and Nage of Flores island. He believes that the folk creature ebu gogo may in fact be Homo floresiensis.

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  • Gregory Forth is a retired 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. As a social anthropologist, Forth's position is both structuralist and interpretivist. He is known for his contributions to ethnoscience. Forth has conducted fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, and has worked with the Kéo and Nage of Flores island. He believes that the folk creature ebu gogo may in fact be Homo floresiensis. In November 2020, his book A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society won the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. (en)
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  • Gregory Forth is a retired 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. As a social anthropologist, Forth's position is both structuralist and interpretivist. He is known for his contributions to ethnoscience. Forth has conducted fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, and has worked with the Kéo and Nage of Flores island. He believes that the folk creature ebu gogo may in fact be Homo floresiensis. (en)
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  • Gregory Forth (en)
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