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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782360303321

Autore

Cartmill Matt

Titolo

A view to a death in the morning : hunting and nature through history / / Matt Cartmill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-674-02925-9

Edizione

[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

306.364

Soggetti

Hunting and gathering societies

Hunting - History

Human-animal relationships

Animals - Symbolic aspects

Hunting stories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-319) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.