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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... murder their friends and relations for pleasure ? Konrad Lorenz , the Nobel- laureate zoologist , was ready with an answer . Other predators had evolved their killing apparatus over millions of years . During this long process , there ...
... just used a zebra femur to commit the world's first murder hurls the bone gleefully into the air -- and it turns into an orbiting spacecraft . 37 14 The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness People have always The Killer Ape.
... murder , arson , and war . " 12 Niles Eld- redge and Ian Tattersall likewise call the myth of Man the Killer Ape " a cop - out -- blaming our wars and violent crimes on some remote ancestor [ to ] ... absolve us from responsibility for ...
... murder . But he is really only raising it to an adult level , as he takes the boys aboard a warship that will soon be hunting and killing other human prey with the same senseless ferocity . Golding's second novel , The Inheritors ...
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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 |
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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 |