A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through HistoryHarvard University Press, 1. 7. 2009 - 347 strán (strany) What brought the ape out of the trees, and so the man out of the ape, was a taste for blood. This is how the story went, when a few fossils found in Africa in the 1920s seemed to point to hunting as the first human activity among our simian forebears—the force behind our upright posture, skill with tools, domestic arrangements, and warlike ways. Why, on such slim evidence, did the theory take hold? In this engrossing book Matt Cartmill searches out the origins, and the strange allure, of the myth of Man the Hunter. An exhilarating foray into cultural history, A View to a Death in the Morning shows us how hunting has figured in the western imagination from the myth of Artemis to the tale of Bambi—and how its evolving image has reflected our own view of ourselves. |
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... throughout the history of Euro- pean thought . In ancient Greek myth and literature , the hunt was usually regarded as a just war , a triumph of the humane and rational over the bestial and irrational ; but throughout the Christian PREFACE.
... ancient Greeks . Warriors in the Iliad are likened repeatedly to hounds , hunters , predators , and prey . More elaborate analogies between hunt- ing and battle are drawn in the Odyssey , where Odysseus ' final bloody vengeance on his ...
... ancient Greece as in our own society , the mythic im- portance of hunting was far out of proportion to its trivial role in the economy , 16 Several Greek gods were associated with the hunt in both myth and religious practice . Three of ...
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4 The White Stag | 52 |
5 The Sobbing Deer | 76 |
6 The Noise of Breaking Machinery | 92 |
7 The Sorrows of Eohippus | 112 |
8 The Sick Animal | 134 |
10 A Fatal Disease of Nature | 189 |
11 The Spirit of the Beast | 211 |
12 A View to a Death in the Morning | 225 |
NOTES | 247 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 289 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 321 |
INDEX | 323 |
9 The Bambi Syndrome | 161 |
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill Obmedzený náhľad - 1996 |
A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1993 |