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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... social organization of the integrated family , ” Etkin suggested , " would also shift selective pressures with respect to the development of the offspring . " With father furnishing most of the family's food , mother no longer need ...
... social organization of the human species . ” 20 This fundamental social pattern was the nuclear family , consisting of a male provider , a female nurturer , and a string of more or less incompetent , slow - maturing offspring ...
... social inhibitions . When it did , man's position was very nearly that of a dove which , by some unnatural trick of nature , has suddenly acquired the beak of a raven . Because our weapons were abruptly invented , not slowly evolved ...
... social ills on human ancestry rather than on our economic systems . Pacifists disliked the notion that an instinctive , ineradicable joy in killing is one of the causes of war . And feminists looked with understandable suspicion on the ...
... social man ... but after the war I did not because I was unable to . I had discovered what one man could do to another . I am not thinking of one man killing another with a gun , or dropping a bomb on him or blowing him up or torpedoing ...
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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 |