Humans and Hyenas: Monster or Misunderstood

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Notes
1. Dramatis Personae: The spotted, striped and brown hyenas
	Striped hyena (
	Spotted hyena (
	Brown Hyena (
	Notes
2. Humans and hyenas from the Pleistocene to the Holocene
	Time periods
	carnivorous mammals
	The evolution of hyenas from the
	The arrival of hominids and hominins as competing carnivores
	Notes
3. Humans and hyenas in Africa to 1600CE
	Pastoralism, cultivation and the environmental effects of human development
	Africa
	the hyena heartland
	Human and hyenas in East Africa and the Horn of Africa from the Holocene to 1600
	Sudan and the Horn of Africa
	The Sahel and Central Africa
	Southern Africa
	West Africa
	North Africa and Egypt
	Notes
4. Humans and hyenas in West, Central and South Asia to 1600CE
	Europe, West and Central Asia
	West Asia
	South Asia
	Notes
5. Humans and hyenas from 1600CE to the end of the 19th century
	Africa in the centuries leading to colonial occupation
	East Africa
	settlement, pastoralism and the arrival of Europeans
	the Harar story continues
	The Horn of Africa
	The Sahel and Central Africa
	the European-led destruction of wildlife from Malawi to Namibia
	Southern Africa
	West Africa
	North Africa, the Middle East and Asia
	South Asia
	Notes
6. Persecution increases under colonial rule
	Sub-Saharan Africa
	East Africa
	The Horn of Africa
	Sudan
	West Africa
	Southern Africa: from Malawi to the Cape
	North Africa, West, Central and South Asia
	India
	Notes
7. Contemporary Africa, West, Central and South Asia
	Part 1: Sub-Saharan Africa
	Part 2: North Africa, West, Central and South Asia
	Notes
8. Myths and representations from early humans to The Lion King
	Fear and loathing in the African bush
	Global myths
	and the media
	Hyena images in literature,
	The Lion King
	What next for the hated hyenas?
	Notes
Index