A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History

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Author: Matt Cartmill
ISBN: 9780674937352

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Language: English

Published by Harvard University Press, 1993

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Title: A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History
Author: Matt Cartmill
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication year: 1993
Condition: Very Good
Dust jacket: Dust Jacket Included
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 067493735X
ISBN 13: 9780674937352
Edition: 1st Edition

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 book, Matt Cartmill searches out the origins - and the strange allure - of the myth of "Man the Hunter". He shows us how hunting has figured in the western imagination from the myth of Artemis to the power of Bambi metaphors - and how its evolving image has reflected our own view of ourselves. A biological anthropologist, Cartmill begins with the killer-ape theory in its version after World War II, and takes us back through literature and history to other versions of the hunting hypothesis. Drafted in the Renaissance, earlier accounts of Man the Hunter reveal a growing cultural 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 controversies over wilderness management and animal rights. Modern ideas and doubts 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 insight into the force and significance of hunting as a mythic metaphor in recent times, particularly after the savagery of the world wars reawakened doubts about man's place in nature. A study of cultural anthropology, "A View to a Death in the Morning" also aims to be a meditation on what it means to be human, to stand uncertainly between the wilderness of beast and prey and the peaceable kingdom.

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This book is an elegant, erudite, stimulating essay on the history of Western ideas about humans and nature. -- Adam Kuper "Nature" A splendid book..."A View to a Death in the Morning" shows both past and present to be a lot more complicated than the slogans of simplistic ideologues. -- Betty Ann Kevles "Los Angeles Times" In graceful prose, infused with wit, irony, and asides that lend unexpected and sometimes poignant relevance to his discussion, Cartmill tells an evocative story of human ambivalence about hunting and our relationship to the animals we kill and sometimes eat...This book is a marvelous piece of social history on a topic of wide significance. -- Bruce Winterhalder "American Scientist" There is every reason to believe that animal rights will become increasingly central to our political discourse in the next century. As this issue moves toward center stage, "A View to a Death in the Morning" will figure prominently...A razor-sharp analysis that succeeds in raising doubts about deeply rooted and widely shared assumptions concerning the position of human beings in nature. -- Robert Rydell "Science" [A] splendid book..."A View to a Death in the Morning" shows both past and present to be a lot more complicated than the slogans of simplistic ideologues. -- Betty Ann Kevles "Los Angeles Times" A stunning survey of society's attitudes toward hunting from classical literature through, inevitably, the greatest anti-hunting event of all time, the release of Walt Disney's Bambi...What [this book] does, with a breadth of literary scholarship and analysis that is most unusual in academic science, is trace society's ambivalence and polarization about hunting from classical Greece...through Rome...and on to the present day...Cartmill's consistent theme--which ties each era, each society, each viewpoint, together in a satisfying text--is his focus on a society's understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature itself. -- M. R. Montgomery "Boston Globe"

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