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A View to a Death in the Morning - Hunting and Nature Through History (Paperback, New Ed)
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A View to a Death in the Morning - Hunting and Nature Through History (Paperback, New Ed)
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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. A leading biological anthropologist, Cartmill brings
remarkable wit and wisdom to his story. Beginning with the
killer-ape theory in its post-World War II version, he takes us
back through literature and history to other versions of the
hunting hypothesis. Earlier accounts of Man the Hunter, drafted in
the Renaissance, reveal a growing uneasiness with humanity's
supposed dominion over nature. By delving further into the history
of hunting, from its promotion as a maker of men and builder of
character to its image as an aristocratic pastime, charged with
ritual and eroticism, Cartmill shows us how the hunter has always
stood between the human domain and the wild, his status changing
with cultural conceptions of that boundary. Cartmill's inquiry
leads us through classical antiquity and Christian tradition,
medieval history, Renaissance thought, and the Romantic movement to
the most recent controversies over wilderness management and animal
rights. Modern ideas about human dominion find their expression in
everything from scientific theories and philosophical assertions to
Disney movies and sporting magazines. Cartmill's survey of these
sources offers fascinating insight into the significance of hunting
as a mythic metaphor in recent times, particularly after the
savagery of the world wars reawakened grievous doubts about man's
place in nature. A masterpiece of humanistic science, A View to a
Death in the Morning is also a thoughtful meditation on what it
means to be human, to stand uncertainly between the wilderness of
beast and prey and the peaceable kingdom. This richly illustrated
book will captivate readers on every side of the dilemma, from the
most avid hunters to their most vehement opponents to those who
simply wonder about the import of hunting in human nature.
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