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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Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill. FOR KAYE with love and thanks PREFACE XI 1 The Killer Ape 1 2 The Rich.
Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill. PREFACE XI 1 The Killer Ape 1 2 The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness 15 3 Virgin Huntresses and Bleeding Feasts 28 4 The White Stag 52 5 The Sobbing Deer 76 6 The Noise of Breaking ...
... apes became human when they took up weapons and began to kill . The killer - ape story has roots in older tales , and so this book is in part a literary history . But it is also a book about science , because scientists have been the ...
... . In the bibliography I list early authors under editors and translators , to avoid such misleading references as " Darwin , 1937. ” Uncredited translations are my own . ONE The Killer Ape Pessimistic accounts of the human condition.
... at University College London for a post in some jerkwater college on the remote frontiers of civilization . He let Smith talk him into applying for the Witwatersrand opening , and he accepted the job offer when it came ; 1 The Killer Ape.
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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 |
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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 |