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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... beasts . The Romantic reaction against science , described in Chapter 7 ( “ The Sor- rows of Eohippus " ) , has taught us to think of nature as a sacred realm opposed to the spreading pollution of technology . Conversely , the opposing ...
... beasts the man - beast is the worst , / To others and himself the cruellest foe . " And Dart went on to describe Homo sapiens in the most embittered and misanthropic language he could summon up : The creatures that have been slain and ...
... beasts.17 Bock , like many other cultural anthropologists , thinks that all such compar- isons of people to animals are misleading because we are not like the beasts in any important respect . “ Our curious inclination to regard ...
... themes again in the short poem " The King of Beasts , " which summons the suffering animals to rejoice at Hiroshima and Auschwitz : 21 Cattle in the slaughter - pens , laboratory dogs Slowly. The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness.
... beast , which is part of his composition , became predominant in him . He grew fierce and bold , delighting in blood and slaughter . War soon succeeded to hunting ; and the necessary consequence of war was , the victors eating the ...
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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 |