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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Main Authors Baynes-Rock, Marcus, Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published University Park, PA Pennsylvania State University Press 2015
Penn State University Press
Edition1
SeriesAnimalibus: Of Animals and Cultures
Subjects
Behavior
Ecology
Effect of human beings on
Ethiopia
Harari (African people)
Harari (African people) > Ethiopia > Hārer > Social life and customs
Harari (African people)-Ethiopia-Hārer-Social life and customs
Hārer (Ethiopia)-Social life and customs
Human-animal relationships
Human-animal relationships > Ethiopia > Hārer
Human-animal relationships-Ethiopia-Hārer
Hyenas
Hyenas > Behavior > Ethiopia > Hārer
Hyenas > Effect of human beings on > Ethiopia > Hārer
Hyenas-Behavior-Ethiopia-Hārer
Hyenas-Effect of human beings on-Ethiopia-Hārer
Hārer
Hārer (Ethiopia) > Social life and customs
Life Sciences
SCIENCE
Social life and customs
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Ethiopia
Hārer
Online AccessGet full text
ISBN0271067209
9780271067209
027107406X
9780271074061
DOI10.1515/9780271074061

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Table of Contents:
  • 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 --