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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... symbolic values we attach to deer entered into the making of the most influential piece of anti- hunting propaganda ever produced . In Chapter 10 ( " A Fatal Disease of Nature " ) , I return to the scientific versions of the hunting ...
... symbolic darkness , carrying one surviving Neanderthal baby - for sacrifice to the bloodthirsty demons that trouble their disordered dreams . Although Dart , Jeffers , and Golding all depict human beings as sick animals whose sickness ...
... symbolic , why anyone should look for the roots of human wickedness in hunting . Hunting is a productive and pleasurable activity , praised as a great builder of health , courage , and moral character by Western philosophers and ...
... because it retold the familar story of Eve and Adam , but because it is — at least in some symbolic way - essentially true . 27 Virgin Huntresses and Bleeding Feasts Phaedra . Bring me to 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 |
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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 |