{"product_id":"audun-and-the-polar-bear-william-i-miller-9789004168114","title":"Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William I. Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004168117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004168114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.30w x 0.60d","brand":"William I. Miller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48799085854975,"sku":"9789004168114","price":176.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/audun-and-the-polar-bear-william-i-miller-9789004168114","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}