Locating the Wild Man
Rain Forest Enchantments and Settler Colonial Fantasies Amid the Ruins of the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cailín E Murray (0000-0002-9574-7830) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-73 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/johs.12224 |
| OpenAlex | W2942196785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
The figure of the Wild Man resides at the hinge where nature meets culture. In the Pacific Northwest, the Wild Man is known locally by different names and is interpreted through a variety of cultural and historical lenses. Settler colonialism in the region, for example, situated the Wild Man within wilderness and anachronistic spaces, aligning him with a bygone and romanticized indigeneity. Conversely, Coast Salish people invigorate new stories of the Wild Man as critique of the ruins of late capitalism. The Wild Man provides them with strength to assert their autonomy and authority in leading the restoration of the natural environment. This article explores monstrous entanglements between settler colonialism, indigeneity and the Wild Man on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State
Anachronism · Anthropocene · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Geography · Peninsula · Political science · Politics · Situated · State (computer science · Wilderness · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |