TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baynes-Rock,Marcus
AU  - Marshall Thomas,Elizabeth
AU  - Thomas,Elizabeth Marshall
TI  - Among the Bone Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar 
T2  - Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures
SN  - 9780271074061
U1  - 599.743 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Harari (African people)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - Hārer
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - Hyenas
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access
N2  - 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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