Heartsblood Hunting, Spirituality, and Wildness in America

Name: Heartsblood Hunting, Spirituality, and Wildness in America
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ISBN: 9781559637619

ISBN-10: 1559637617

ISBN-13: 9781559637619

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: David Petersen, Ted Williams

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In this age of boneless chicken breasts and drive-thru Happy Meals, why do some humans still hunt? Is it a visceral, tooth-and-claw hunger for meat, tied in a primitive savage knot with an innate lust for violence and domination? Or might it be a hunger of an entirely different sort? And if so, what? In Heartsblood, writer and veteran outdoorsman David Petersen offers a thoroughly informed, unsettlingly honest, intensely personal exploration of this increasingly contentious issue. He draws clear distinctions between true hunting and contemporary hunter behavior, praising what's right about the former and damning what's wrong with the latter, as he seeks to render the terms "hunter" and…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Preface: Contemplating The Hunter


Acknowledgments



Exploring Hunting's Heritage



How Hunting Made (and Helps to Keep) Us Human: A Tribute to Paul Shepard



Dersu Uzala: A Hunter/Conservationist Paradigm



Hunting Down the Hunt: Meditations on Jose Ortega y Gasset



Worldviews in Conflict



Hunters: A Scientific Profile (with Personal Conclusions)



Antihunters: A Scientific Profile (with Personal Conclusions)



Hunting for Spirituality: An Oxymoron?



Heartsblood: Getting Personal



The Unnatural Predator? Taking Aim at Trophy Hunting



(Meta) Physician, Heal Thyself! Personal Encounters with Trophy Hunting



Confessions of a Baby Killer: Exploring the Dark Side of Wildness



The Bambi Syndrome Dismembered: Why Bambi (and Bambi) Must Die



Why I Bowhunt: Confessions of a Pleistocene Throwback



Hydraulic Hunting: Wading the Slippery Waters of "No Kill" Angling



Onward, Through the Fog



Gender Be Damned: A Woman's View of (Men and) Hunting



Women and Hunting: A Man's View



Should Kids Hunt? Reflections on the Past and Future of Hunting



Bullseye: Process versus Project


A Dreamy Postscript: The Wapiti's Message


Selected Bibliography


About the Author


Index