Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business by Miller, William I.

Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004271937)

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Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business by Miller, William I.

Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business

$45.00
Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business by Miller, William I.

Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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Audun's Story tells of an Icelandic farmhand who buys a polar bear in Greenland and gives it to the Danish king. It is a subtle tale of complex social action worthy of the fine anthropological writing on gift-exchange; its treatment of face-to-face interaction a match for Erving Goffman.

Author: William I. Miller
ISBN-10: 9004271937
ISBN-13: 9789004271937
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2008
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.30d
By William I. Miller
By William I. Miller
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William Ian Miller is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. In addition to books on the bloodfeud in the Icelandic sagas and on the lex talionis, he has also published several books on the risks, miseries and triumphs of routine social interaction, among which are The Anatomy of Disgust (1997), The Mystery of Courage (2000), and Faking It (2003).

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