Among the Bone Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar

(Part of the Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures Series)

by Marcus Baynes-Rock

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0271067209

ISBN13:9780271067209

Release Date:August 2015

Publisher:Penn State University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 7.3" x 9.2"

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Among the Bone Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar

(Part of the Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures Series)

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