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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... nature . But that argument cannot apply to the early versions of the hunting hypothesis , which contain some of the most vitriolic denunciations of these evils ever written . What , then , do we get out of seeing ourselves as sick ...
Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill. [ To view this image , refer to the print version of this title ... natural foods my mind flashed back to Miss Salmons ' baboon skull which had come from the same mine . I remembered the ...
Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill. All these patterns reinforced one another . Hunting demanded weap- ons . Weapons encouraged bipedalism . Bipedalism made it possible to carry things -- not only weapons and helpless ...
Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill. stained progress of man . He has either decimated and eradicated ... natural drives , men enjoy the chase and the kill . In most cultures torture and suffering are made public spectacles ...
... natural weapons brought home to him the full , emotional realization of what he is actually doing . ” 30 Hunting also entailed man's estrangement from nature . As Wash- burn and Lancaster put it : Hunting changed man's relations to ...
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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 |