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Audun and the Polar Bear

Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-90-04-27193-7
Verlag: Brill
Erscheinungstermin: 25.07.2008
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Audun’s Story is the tale of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland for no other reason than to give it to the Danish king, half a world away. It can justly be listed among the finest pieces of short fiction in world literature. Terse in the best saga style, it spins a story of complex competitive social action, revealing the cool wit and finely-calibrated reticence of its three main characters: Audun, Harald Hardradi, and King Svein. The tale should have much to engage legal and cultural historians, anthropologists, economists, philosophers, and students of literature. The story’s treatment of gift-exchange is worthy of the fine anthropological and historical writing on gift-exchange; its treatment of face-to-face interaction a match for Erving Goffman.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789004271937
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-90-04-27193-7
  • Verlag: Brill
  • Erscheinungstermin: 25.07.2008
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2008
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 277 g
  • Seiten: 156
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 236 x 8 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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