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Worth reading Adrienne Mayor
6 February 2017
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/EagleHuntress2016long.pdf

The Eagle Huntress Ancient Traditions and New Generations By Adrienne Mayor mayor@stanford.edu May 1, 2016

Essential and interesting reading to get past the hype and western prejudices of what is a fine film with an ignorant vein about the place of women in Central Asian eagle hunting...

When she was interviewed in Mongolia's leading newspaper in 2016, however, Aisholpan's mother Alma gul stated that there are no restrictions on girls deciding to be eagle hunters. In the film itself, Aisholpan's father Agalai says, "I think boys and girls are equal."
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