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Flight from grace : a cultural history of humans and birds / / Richard Pope



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Autore: Pope Richard <1941-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Flight from grace : a cultural history of humans and birds / / Richard Pope Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal, Quebec province ; ; Kingston, Canada ; ; London, England ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 pages)
Disciplina: 598
Soggetto topico: Birds - Social aspects - History
Human-animal relationships
Human ecology
Birds in art
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Soggetto non controllato: Anthropology
Environmental studies
Classificazione: cci1icc
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-282) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Divine Implications: Telltale Evidence -- Animism and the Sacred -- Birds in Palaeolithic Cave Wall Art -- Birds in Palaeolithic Portable Art -- Birds in Neolithic Art: Anatolia, Iraq, Syria, and Europe -- Sacred Birds of Mesopotamia and Egypt -- Sacred Birds of Peru -- Sacred Birds of Greece and the Judeo-Christian World -- Gods as Birds: The Magic of Flight -- Sacred Music: The Ecstasy of Birdsong -- Birds Betrayed: Sapiens at Its Worst -- What Went Wrong? -- What Is to Be Done?.
Sommario/riassunto: Suggesting that the replacement of an animistic worldview with a mechanistic one has led humans to deny their animality, Flight from Grace calls on readers to appreciate how our past relationship with birds might help transform our current relationship with nature.
Titolo autorizzato: Flight from grace  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9780228013709
9780228005308
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910795898503321
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