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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... cultural conceptions . 2. Hunting -- History . 3. Human - animal relationships . 4. Animals —- Symbolic aspects . 5. Hunting stories . I. Title . GN388.C37 1993 304.5 - dc20 92-44960 CIP Designed by Gwen Frankfeldt FOR KAYE with love ...
... cultural and historical changes , including the collapse of Nazi Germany and the European empires , the postwar rise of ecological conscious- ness , and the fears of scientific technology spawned by the atom bomb and the onset of the ...
... cultural horizon . The old South African School of Mines had just completed a three - year metamorphosis into the University of the Witwatersrand , with a big new campus down- town , thirty academic departments , and its own medical ...
... 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 con- nection between hunting ...
... culture , and the picture of Homo sapiens as a mentally unbalanced predator threatening an otherwise harmonious natural realm became so pervasive that it ceased to provoke comment . These themes were disseminated not only through ...
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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 |