Audun and the Polar Bear : Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risk...

by William I. Miller

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Audun and the Polar Bear : Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business, Hardcover by Miller, William Ian, ISBN 9004168117, ISBN-13 9789004168114, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2008
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9789004168114
• Condition: Fine

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