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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... sort of chimpanzee studying to be a jackal. The man- ape fossils from the new Transvaal sites were commingled with the remains of wildebeest, kudu, warthog, zebra, and other big game. Dart's studies of these fossil animals convinced him ...
... sort and devote her time and attention to her offspring. Given such intensive mothering, her offspring need not grow up quickly; they could afford a longer period of dependency on their parents. This would be useful, because the young ...
... sort. Later hominids found in those caves drove out the animals and took over the caves for themselves. We know this because the later deposits contain stone tools (which leopards and hyenas would not have dragged into the caves). The ...
... sort of absolution for his sins ... If it is our 'nature' to be what we are, if we are the lineal descendants of our 'murderous' ancestors, we can hardly be blamed or blame ourselves for . . . crime, rape, murder, arson, and war."12 ...
... sort. Dart's own writings show this clearly enough. Confronted with just two fossils from Taung, a baboon skull with a hole in it and the skull of an apelike infant, Dart at once concluded that the infant's elders were human ancestors ...
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3 Virgin Huntresses and Bleeding Feasts | 28 |
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 |