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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... Meat and Wickedness 15 3 Virgin Huntresses and Bleeding Feasts 28 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 9 The Bambi Syndrome 161 10 A Fatal ...
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