Among the bone eaters : encounters with hyenas in Harar
Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa's second-largest carnivores, up close—and in a city of a hundred thousan...
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University Park, PA
Pennsylvania State University Press
2015
Penn State University Press |
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| Series | Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures |
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| Abstract | Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa's second-largest carnivores, up close—and in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants? In Among the Bone Eaters, Marcus Baynes-Rock takes us to the ancient city of Harar in Ethiopia, where the gey waraba (hyenas of the city) are welcome in the streets and appreciated by the locals for the protection they provide from harmful spirits and dangerous "mountain" hyenas. They've even become a local tourist attraction. At the start of his research in Harar, Baynes-Rock contended with difficult conditions, stone-throwing children, intransigent bureaucracy, and wary hyena subjects intent on avoiding people. After months of frustration, three young hyenas drew him into the hidden world of the Sofi clan. He discovered the elements of a hyena's life, from the delectability of dead livestock and the nuisance of dogs to the unbounded thrill of hyena chase-play under the light of a full moon. Baynes-Rock's personal relations with the hyenas from the Sofi clan expand the conceptual boundaries of human-animal relations. This is multispecies ethnography that reveals its messy, intersubjective, dangerously transformative potential. |
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| AbstractList | Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa’s second-largest carnivores, up close—and in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants? In Among the Bone Eaters , Marcus Baynes-Rock takes us to the ancient city of Harar in Ethiopia, where the gey waraba (hyenas of the city) are welcome in the streets and appreciated by the locals for the protection they provide from harmful spirits and dangerous “mountain” hyenas. They’ve even become a local tourist attraction.
At the start of his research in Harar, Baynes-Rock contended with difficult conditions, stone-throwing children, intransigent bureaucracy, and wary hyena subjects intent on avoiding people. After months of frustration, three young hyenas drew him into the hidden world of the Sofi clan. He discovered the elements of a hyena’s life, from the delectability of dead livestock and the nuisance of dogs to the unbounded thrill of hyena chase-play under the light of a full moon. Baynes-Rock’s personal relations with the hyenas from the Sofi clan expand the conceptual boundaries of human-animal relations. This is multispecies ethnography that reveals its messy, intersubjective, dangerously transformative potential. Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa's second-largest carnivores, up close—and in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants? In Among the Bone Eaters, Marcus Baynes-Rock takes us to the ancient city of Harar in Ethiopia, where the gey waraba (hyenas of the city) are welcome in the streets and appreciated by the locals for the protection they provide from harmful spirits and dangerous "mountain" hyenas. They've even become a local tourist attraction. At the start of his research in Harar, Baynes-Rock contended with difficult conditions, stone-throwing children, intransigent bureaucracy, and wary hyena subjects intent on avoiding people. After months of frustration, three young hyenas drew him into the hidden world of the Sofi clan. He discovered the elements of a hyena's life, from the delectability of dead livestock and the nuisance of dogs to the unbounded thrill of hyena chase-play under the light of a full moon. Baynes-Rock's personal relations with the hyenas from the Sofi clan expand the conceptual boundaries of human-animal relations. This is multispecies ethnography that reveals its messy, intersubjective, dangerously transformative potential. Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection.So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa's second-largest carnivores, up close--and in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants?. |
| Author | Baynes-Rock, Marcus Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall |
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| TableOfContents | Cover
Title Page, Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Past Finding Around Harar
Chapter 2: Lines of Reason for Hyenas
Chapter 3: Between Different Relations
Chapter 4: You Hyenas
Chapter 5: The Legend of Ashura
Chapter 6: On the Tail of a Hyena
Chapter 7: Encounters with the Unseen
Chapter 8: Reflections from a Hyena Playground
Chapter 9: Death, Death, and Rhetoric
Chapter 10: Blood of the Hyena
Chapter 11: Across a Human/Hyena Boundary
Chapter 12: A Host of Other Ideas
Chapter 13: Returning to Other Hyenas
Chapter 14: Talking Up Hyena Realities
Chapter 15: Looking Through a Hyena Hole
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Cover
Photo Gallery COVER Front -- Series Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Past Finding Around Harar -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Lines of Reason for Hyenas -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Between Different Relations -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: You Hyenas -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: The Legend of Ashura -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: On the Tail of a Hyena -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7: Encounters with the Unseen -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: Reflections from a Hyena Playground -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- PHOTO GALLERY -- Chapter 9: Death, Death, and Rhetoric -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10: Blood of the Hyena -- Notes to Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11: Across a Human/Hyena Boundary -- Notes to Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12: A Host of Other Ideas -- Notes to Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13: Returning to Other Hyenas -- Notes to Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14: Talking Up Hyena Realities -- Notes to Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15: Looking Through a Hyena Hole -- Notes to Chapter 15 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back Acknowledgments -- 10 Blood of the Hyena -- Contents -- 12 A Host of Other Ideas -- 6 On the Tail of a Hyena -- Index Foreword -- 4 You Hyenas -- 2 Lines of Reason for Hyenas -- 5 The Legend of Ashura -- 14 Talking Up Hyena Realities -- 3 Between Different Relations -- 9 Death, Death, and Rhetoric -- 13 Returning to Other Hyenas -- 8 Reflections from a Hyena Playground -- 11 Across a Human/Hyena Boundary -- Frontmatter -- 15 Looking Through a Hyena Hole -- 1 Past Finding Around Harar -- Notes -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- 7 Encounters with the Unseen -- |
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