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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... young Australian anatomist named Raymond Dart , was not enchanted with the prospect of swapping his prestigious job at University College London for a post in some jerkwater college on the remote frontiers of civilization . He let Smith ...
... Young in the university's geology department to see what he could do to get more fossils from the site . Young went to Taung in Novem- ber and returned with another fossil skull . The new fossil was no baboon ; it looked like the skull ...
... young . " 16 Etkin thought that this cooperation — what he called " the sociali- zation of the male ” —had been brought about by " the diffusion of sexual activity over the entire menstrual period " in the female . The female's ...
... young man - apes had a lot of lessons to learn . None of the things they needed to know in order to survive— how to make and use tools , cooperate in the hunt , have cortically controlled sex , and tend their own helpless offspring ...
... young man - apes could afford to stretch out their childhood years while they developed larger brains and learned more complicated skills . But supporting the females and young during this longer infancy made greater demands on 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 |
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 |