![]() As usual, beautifully and plentifully illustrated.Ī Journey to the Center of the Internet, by Andrew Blum, HarperCollins, 294 pages, $29.99 She also examines the hyena as a totemic object in tribal culture (amulets to avert evil woven from its hairs, virility treatments) as well as the portrayal of hyenas in such works as Life of Pi, The Lion King and the Tarzan novels, where they come off less well. Hyenas, she claims convincingly, are complex, intelligent and highly social – and can even be easily trained to live with human beings. psychoanalyst and cultural critic Mikita Brottman reassesses these maligned creatures. But in the latest entry in this invaluable (if sometimes uneven) series on individual animals, U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is there a creature more unlovely and less loved, or more loathed, than the hyena, the slope-backed, mighty-jawed, yammering, cowardly skulker of the night? In much of Africa, hyenas are no laughing matter more feared than lions, they have been known to come into villages and carry off children. By Mikita Brottman, Reaktion, 167 pages, $20.95 ![]()
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