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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... wild forest came to be seen as a lovely place , and the hunter's quarry took on an air of tragedy , nobility , and mystery . Chapter 5 ( " The Sobbing Deer " ) describes the emergence of the hunt as a symbol of tyranny and an object of ...
... natural . The human notion that it is normal for animals to flee , the whole concept of animals being wild , is the result of man's habit of hunting . In game reserves many different kinds of animals. 12 The Killer Ape.
... wild dogs are choosy about what they kill . They prefer to go after young , helpless victims , and each kind of predator concentrates on prey of one particular size . Scavengers , on the other hand , eat whatever they can get : fresh ...
... wild apple than a son of man . But we are what we are , and we might remember Not to hate any person , for all are vicious ; And not be astonished at any evil , all are deserved ; And not fear death ; it is the only way to be cleansed ...
... wild pigs . The chase unleashes blind , prim- itive impulses that soon have them hunting and killing one another , chanting " Kill the beast ! Cut his throat ! Spill his blood ! " " A British naval officer suddenly appears to put a stop ...
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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 |