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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... males to learn to cooperate with each other . Dart had shown that Australopithecus preyed on baboons , which travel in large , well - defended groups . Bartholomew and Birdsell rea- soned that the male australopithecines must also have ...
... males could therefore carry food to their mates , who could not hunt for themselves because they were encumbered by ... male provider , a female nurturer , and a string of more or less incompetent , slow - maturing offspring . Supported ...
... 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.
... male specialized as hunter , the female as domestic " from the very start of human evolution . Since the early 1970s , anthropolo- gists ( who tend to be left - wing , pacifist , and feminist ) have accordingly tended to dismiss the ...
... males with technology and the provision of basic subsistence ... It promotes the idea of male aggression as necessary for hunting and for protecting the weak and passive females and children and assumes male dominance over females ...
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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 |