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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... Chase , by Gustave Courbet 137 A Random Shot , by Sir Edwin Landseer 140 Cartoon of the nature - fakers controversy ISS Hugh Harman's Peace on Earth 172 Bambi's mother meets President Bush 183 Preface THIS BOOK is about the connections ...
... chase . " But those first fruits of the chase looked like pretty meager pickings . After studying the collection of bony rubbish found in the Taung breccias , Dart concluded that it must represent leftovers from australopithecine meals ...
... chase and the kill . In most cultures torture and suffering are made public spectacles for the en- joyment of all . The victims may be either animal or human . This behavior is strikingly similar to that of many carnivores . " 28 The ...
... chase unleashes blind , prim- itive impulses that soon have them hunting and killing one another , chanting " Kill the beast ! Cut his throat ! Spill his blood ! " " A British naval officer suddenly appears to put a stop to the carnival ...
... chase proper was conducted with hunting dogs , and it was accordingly called cynegia ( dog driving ) . Cynegia had higher status than other kinds of thera . Plato calls fishing and trapping idle amusements , in which " the slothful ...
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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 |