A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through HistoryWhat 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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... Faline . But what gives Salten's Bambi its peculiar misanthropic force is that it depicts the human presence as not only dangerous but corrupting . Getting maimed or killed by man proves to be less dreadful than being befriended by Him ...
... Faline culminates in a symbolic orgasm - a sustained wordless cry from the tenors , a cascade of flower petals into the dark water , and so forth - whereupon the scene fades out , to be replaced by a shot of the two lovers sleeping ...
... Faline . I waited for the second fawn to show up and follow the doe , but no fawn came . After a few minutes , I drove on and did the stable chores . The two men had left by the time I started back home , so I stopped to look at the ...
Contents
The Killer Ape | 1 |
The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness | 15 |
Virgin Huntresses and Bleeding Feasts | 28 |
Copyright | |
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A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill Limited preview - 2009 |
A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History Matt Cartmill Limited preview - 1996 |