User:SojoQ/Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend

Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend is a non-fiction book written by Joshua Blu Buhs and published by the University of Chicago Press (2009). The book explores the history of Bigfoot, the exploits of its believers, as well as hoaxers, and the cultural influences that, according to Buhs, give the legend staying power.

About the author
Buhs is an American scholar and writer. He earned a PhD in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania. Though skeptical about the existence of Bigfoot, he was initially interested in how the legend might reflect America's views of and relationship with nature. "Here was a creature...that embodied various ideas about the natural world...but didn't exist." His goal in writing the book was to document the complexities of Bigfoot's origins.

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