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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... kind of predator concentrates on prey of one particular size . Scavengers , on the other hand , eat whatever they can get : fresh meat or carrion , young animals or old , big species or little ones . Thus , by looking at the bones in a ...
... kind . If chimpanzees are predators , then predation was probably not a new departure for our own apelike ancestors . Therefore predation by itself cannot explain why our ancestors evolved into australopithecines and chimpanzees did not ...
... This is bad . This is very bad . ” . . . The air between the rocks was forbidding with violence and sweat , with the rich smell of meat and wickedness watching birds . There was a kind of darkness. 22 The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness.
Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill. wickedness watching birds . There was a kind of darkness in the air under the Lok spoke loudly , acknowledging the darkness . " This is very bad . Oa brought the doe out of her belly ...
... kind of hunting.29 All this sounds remarkably like what Raymond Dart was saying two centuries later , right down to the equation of war with hunting . Monboddo anticipated not only Dart's theories but also his misan- thropy . Man ...
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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 |