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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... forest came to be seen as a lovely place , and the hunter's quarry took on an air of tragedy , nobility , and mystery . Chapter 5 ( " The Sobbing Deer " ) describes the emergence of the hunt as a symbol of tyranny and an object of moral ...
... forests , but northern South Africa has been a grassy and semiarid country for millions of years . How could an animal like a chimpanzee or an orangutan have survived on a treeless plain ? As Dart studied the skull , [ To view this ...
... forests of the tropical belts , Nature was supplying with profligate and lavish hand an easy and sluggish solution . . of the problem of existence . ” But for an ape living in the Transvaal , survival " constantly and increasingly ...
... forest creatures , subsisting almost exclusively on fruits , leaves , shoots and insects . All known races of man , on the other hand , include a substantial portion of animal flesh in their diet . . . I suggest that meat - eating is as ...
... forest . There is no reason to think that Australopithecus had to be any more carnivorous than a chimpanzee to survive on the fringes of the Kalahari . All these new facts and interpretations contributed to the anthro- pological ...
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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 |