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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... 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.
... myths . " The New Enlightenment " is the title of the first chapter of Ardrey's mockingly titled African Genesis . Its opening paragraph is memorably ominous : Not in innocence , and not in Asia , was mankind born . The home of our ...
... myth that serves reactionary interests . The pacifist reaction against the hunting hypothesis began in the late 1960s , at the height of the Vietnam war . The prevailing suspicion among pacifist critics at the time was that the whole ...
... myth . " They dismiss the whole killer - ape story as a rehash of the old biblical tale of the forbidden fruit and Adam's fall from grace ( with raw meat instead of an apple on the menu this time around ) . Kenneth Bock sees Ardrey and ...
... ( as some of Dart's critics would have it ) myths dreamt up to legitimize war and violence . They were intended to warn us against them . But the horrors of World War II and the nightmares 24 The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness.
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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 |