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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... critics argue that the vision of Homo sapiens as a lunatic killer ape attracts those who seek to excuse war , violence , and cruelty as inherent in human nature . But that argument cannot apply to the early versions of the hunting ...
... critics , could nevertheless write in 1972 : No informed person now questions the fact that the modern human condition owes much to the shaping effects of a lifeway that included hunting as a major component . . . The regularly manifest ...
... critics disliked the Dart - Ardrey - Lorenz picture of human nature because it blamed many of our social ills on human ancestry rather than on our economic systems . Pacifists disliked the notion that an instinctive , ineradicable joy ...
... critics find a different subtext tucked away in the hunting hypothesis . Adrienne Zihlman and Nancy Tanner noted that the fa- miliar anthropological image of Man the Hunter stresses the role of men almost to the exclusion of women . In ...
... critics are surely right to think that the attractiveness of the hunting hypothesis had nothing to do with the scientific evidence . Scientific evidence furnished excuses , not grounds , for accepting the hunting story and 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 |