Among the bone eaters : encounters with hyenas in Harar / / Marcus Baynes-Rock ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

• Autore: Baynes-Rock Marcus <1965->
• Pubblicazione: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages :) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 599.743
• Soggetto topico: Hyenas - Effect of human beings on - Ethiopia - Hārer; Hyenas - Behavior - Ethiopia - Hārer; Harari (African people) - Ethiopia - Hārer - Social life and customs; Human-animal relationships - Ethiopia - Hārer
• Soggetto geografico: Hārer (Ethiopia) Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): ThomasElizabeth Marshall <1931->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Past Finding Around Harar -- 2 Lines of Reason for Hyenas -- 3 Between Different Relations -- 4 You Hyenas -- 5 The Legend of Ashura -- 6 On the Tail of a Hyena -- 7 Encounters with the Unseen -- 8 Reflections from a Hyena Playground -- 9 Death, Death, and Rhetoric -- 10 Blood of the Hyena -- 11 Across a Human/Hyena Boundary -- 12 A Host of Other Ideas -- 13 Returning to Other Hyenas -- 14 Talking Up Hyena Realities -- 15 Looking Through a Hyena Hole -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between hyenas and the people of Harar, Ethiopia"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Among the bone eaters
• ISBN: 0-271-07404-3; 0-271-07406-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480022603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Animalibus ; ; Volume 8.