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Among the Bone Eaters:

Encounters with Hyenas in Harar
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An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between hyenas and the people of Harar, Ethiopia.


Contents

Foreword by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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


“Remarkable. . . . This is a delightful book, full of fascinating portraits of humans and hyenas in a remote corner of the world where ancient lines of animosity are blurred.”

—Milbry C. Polk, The Explorers Journal

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