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Autore |
Cartmill Matt |
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Titolo |
A view to a death in the morning : hunting and nature through history / / Matt Cartmill |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1993 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hunting and gathering societies |
Hunting - History |
Human-animal relationships |
Animals - Symbolic aspects |
Hunting stories |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-319) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. The Killer Ape -- 2. The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness -- 3. Virgin Huntresses and Bleeding Feasts -- 4. The White Stag -- 5. The Sobbing Deer -- 6. The Noise of Breaking Machinery -- 7. The Sorrows of Eohippus -- 8. The Sick Animal -- 9. The Bambi Syndrome -- 10. The Fatal Disease of Nature -- 11. The Spirit of the Beast -- 12. View to a Death in the Morning |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work looks at the ways in which hunting has figured in the Western imagination, from the myth of Artemis to the tale of Bambi. |
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