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. |
Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy
Výsledky 1 - 5 z 49.
... history of Euro- pean thought . In ancient Greek myth and literature , the hunt was usually regarded as a just war , a triumph of the humane and rational over the bestial and irrational ; but throughout the Christian PREFACE.
... literature . " The de- partment of anatomy was housed in a shabby old building . Its central facility , a ramshackle dissecting hall strewn with dried - up cadaver parts , was used for tennis practice when medical classes were not in ...
... literature , starting with the ancient Greeks . Warriors in the Iliad are likened repeatedly to hounds , hunters , predators , and prey . More elaborate analogies between hunt- ing and battle are drawn in the Odyssey , where Odysseus ...
... literature , they are associated respectively with Apollo , the god of reason and light , and Dionysus , the bringer of holy madness . THE Greeks had many words for various sorts of hunting , which differed in social status and symbolic ...
... literature . Greek my- thology abounds in beautiful fleet - footed maidens who live chastely in the wild mountain forests , bringing down game with unerring arrows . Most of these mythic huntresses - Opis , Daphne , Arethusa , Syrinx ...
Obsah
1 | |
15 | |
28 | |
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 |