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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... wrote up his find- ings and conclusions , and sent his manuscript off to the British science journal Nature — all in less than six weeks.6 Dart's paper was published on February 7 , 1925. In it , Dart named his big - brained anthropoid ...
... wrote in 1940 , had managed to survive only through " exploitation of every accessible source of food . " No doubt they had even " chased away the vultures and hyaenas and filled them- selves with the noisome remnants of the lion's ...
... wrote Weston La Barre , “ is precisely that it enjoys this protected dependency and fostering by the mother . " 17 S. L. Washburn found a connection between this and bipedalism : In all the apes and monkeys the baby clings to the mother ...
... wrote , " and the combination of the woman's obligation to care for slow - developing babies and the man's occupation of hunting im- posed a fundamental pattern on the social organization of the human species . ” 20 This fundamental ...
... wrote , " probably more competent , because they had fewer inhibi- tions . " The Transvaal man - apes like Nimrod long after them , were mighty hunters . They were also callous and brutal . The most shocking specimen there was the ...
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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 |