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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... important and puzzling find . Apes today live in 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 ...
... important for another reason : it made it possible for the infant's brain to grow bigger . " The reason that the newborn baby may commit more of its birth - weight to the human specialty , brain , and relatively less to a largely ...
... were simply the most dangerous game . War has been far too important in human history for it to be other than pleasurable for the males in- volved.29 Then why don't lions and wolves and other hunting animals. II The Killer Ape.
... important respect . “ Our curious inclination to regard ourselves as being like other animals , " he writes , may provide “ relief from guilt feelings about our conduct ; it serves in this way as a substitute for the doctrine of ...
... importance of hunting lies in its symbolism , not its economics . For a few skilled hunters in rural areas , " harvesting " wild animals with a gun may still be an efficient way of putting meat on the table ; but the average U.S. deer ...
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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 |