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Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (1) (Medieval Law and Its Practice)

William Ian Miller

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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (1) (Medieval Law and Its Practice). To get started finding Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (1) (Medieval Law and Its Practice), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (1) (Medieval Law and Its Practice). To get started finding Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (1) (Medieval Law and Its Practice), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (1) (Medieval Law and Its Practice)

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