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Article: Hyenas and humans in the Horn of Africa.
- Article from:
- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
- Author:
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Cultural-historical geography provides a distinctive perspective on the human/animal interface by connecting the present with the past and the particulars of the biophysical with the cultural. Scholars who have explored animals in other disciplines have rarely predicated their studies on convergence of the two dimensions through time. Examined here is a relationship, broadly symbiotic yet also conflictive, (1) between the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) and the culturally diverse peoples in the Horn of Africa. (2) If the roots of this connection originated in the distant past, only the last half-millennium is knowable, and but a fraction of that is retrievable. Integrating ...