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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... thought after the end of World War II . In Chapter 2 , I describe the collapse of the hypothesis during the 1970s and ask why such a flimsy story with such unpalatable implications was accepted for so long by thoughtful sci- entists ...
... thought it a shame that the well - liked Stibbe had been sacked and replaced -- worst of all , by an Australian . Dart's previously bright prospects as a scientist were starting to look sour and dim . Then something happened that ...
... thought , when he first saw the infant's skull , was that this extinct South African ape might have made its living as a hunter : As I pondered the mystery of how the big - brained creature could have survived in the Transvaal without ...
... thought , had been a predatory primate , an ape that " had become sufficiently weaned from its frugivorous tropical diet to vary its table with the fruits of the chase . " But those first fruits of the chase looked like pretty meager ...
... thought , was the tool kit of a butcher . " The early hominids must often have encountered difficulty in remov- ing skin and fur , and in dividing the flesh . In the absence of strong canine teeth [ this difficulty ] would have been ...
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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 |