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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... evolution agreed that Australopithecus had been a hunter and that our ancestors had become human largely as a result of taking up hunting . Kenneth Oakley's 1951 essay “ A Definition of Man ” sounded the keynote : The apes of to - day ...
... evolutionary products of the success of the hunting adap- tation . " " Man's life as a hunter supplied all the other ... evolution until the invention of agriculture.23 We can call this , as Robert Ardrey did , the hunting hypothesis.24 ...
... evolutionary success of hunting exerted a profound effect on human psychology . Perhaps , this is most easily shown by the extent of the efforts devoted to maintain killing as a sport . In former times royalty and nobility maintained ...
... evolved their killing apparatus over millions of years . During this long process , there was heavy natural selection ... evolution , no inhibitory mechanisms pre- venting sudden manslaughter were necessary . . . until , all of a sudden ...
... evolutionary legacy from the half - million years or more that the human line spent as the only primate who practiced hunting as a major part of its subsistence activities.36 During the 1960s , the central propositions of the hunting ...
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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 |