Among the Bone Eaters: Encounters with Hyenas in Harar

by Marcus Baynes-Rock

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: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.2"