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

Matt Cartmill

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9780788163012: View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History

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ISBN 10: 0788163019 ISBN 13: 9780788163012

Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press, 1993

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Searches out the origins & allure of the myth of Man the Hunter. Shows us how hunting has figured in the western imagination from the myth of Artemis to the tale of Bambi -- & how its evolving image has reflected our own view of ourselves. Takes us back through literature & history to other versions of the hunting hypothesis. By delving further into the history of hunting, from its promotion as a maker of men & builder of character to its image as an aristocratic pastime, charged with ritual & eroticism, Cartmill shows how the hunter has always stood between the human domain & the wild, his status changing with cultural conceptions of that boundary.

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'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. 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 importance of hunting in human nature.