Rightly returning hyenas to their proper place in the animal pantheon, this richly illustrated book will be enjoyed by any animal lover with an interest in the unusual and offbeat. Brottman also considers representations of hyenas in today's popular fiction, including The Lion King and The Life of Pi,where they are often depicted as villains, cowardly henchmen, or clowns, while ignoring their more noble qualities. She discovers that many cultures use parts of the hyena-from excrement and blood to genitalia and hair-to make charms that both avert evil and promote fertility. Investigating representations of the hyena throughout history, Brottman divulges that the hyena, though shrouded in taboo, has been the source of talismanic objects since the ancient Greek and Roman empires. Mikita Brottman, described by the New York Times Book Review as 'one of today's finest practitioners of nonfiction,' is the author of COUPLE FOUND SLAIN: AFTER A FAMILY MURDER (Henry Holt, 2021), which 'offers a precise and rarely seen accounting of American hospitals for the criminally insaneand shows the compounding injustice that results when the criminal mental health system is layered. Here to restore the Hyena's reputation is Mikita Brottman, who offers an alternate view of these mistreated and misunderstood creatures and proves that they are complex, intelligent, and highly sociable animals. They have been scorned for centuries as little more than scavenging carrion-eaters, vandals, and thieves. Hyenas are almost universally regarded as nasty, scheming charlatans that skulk in the back alleyways of the animal kingdom. /rebates/2fHyena-Dr-Mikita-Brottman2fbook2f19807106&.
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