A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through HistoryHarvard University Press, 1 июл. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 347 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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... things ahead on the city's cultural horizon . The old South African School of Mines had just completed a three - year metamorphosis into the University of the Witwatersrand , with a big new campus down- town , thirty academic ...
... things far too easy . ( " In the luxuriant forests of the tropical belts , Nature was supplying with profligate and lavish hand an easy and sluggish solution . . of the problem of existence . ” But for an ape living in the Transvaal ...
... thing that creepeth upon the earth . ” " The main food supply of the breccia - makers , ” he concluded in 1957 , " was venison . " 13 Originally Dart had regarded Australopithecus as a desperate fruit eater that had been forced to turn ...
... 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 - came instinc- tively to them . Each new generation had to learn ...
... things -- not only weapons and helpless babies but also meat . 19 Bipedal males could therefore carry food to their mates , who could not hunt for themselves because they were encumbered by infants . " The slow - moving mother ...
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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 |
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 |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 321 |
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9 The Bambi Syndrome | 161 |
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