Download or read book Audun and the Polar Bear written by William Ian Miller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auduna (TM)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.