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Traces of an omnivore
"Throughout his long and distinguished career, Paul Shepard addressed the most fundamental question of life: Who are we? An oft-repeated theme of his writing is what he saw as the central fact of our existence: that our genetic heritage, formed by three million years of hunting and gathering, remains essentially unchanged. Shepard argued that this, "our wild Pleistocene genome," influences everything from human neurology and ontogeny to our pathologies, social structure, myths, and cosmology." "While Shepard's writings travel widely across the intellectual landscape, exploring topics as diverse as aesthetics, the bear, hunting, perception, agriculture, human ontogeny, history, animal rights, domestication, post-modern deconstruction, tourism, vegetarianism, the iconography of animals, the Hudson River school of painters, human ecology, theoretical psychology, and metaphysics, the fundamental importance of our genetic makeup is the predominant theme of this collection."--Jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 1559634316 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9781559634311 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: xx, 235 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press [for] Shearwater Books, ©1996.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction / Jack Turner -- The Ark of the Mind -- Animal Rights and Human Rites -- Phyto-resonance of the True Self -- Bears and People -- Searching Out Kindred Spirits -- On Animal Friends -- The Corvidean Millennium; or, Letter from an Old Crow -- Place and Human Development -- Place in American Culture -- Ecology and Man -- A Viewpoint -- Advice from the Pleistocene -- The Philosopher, the Naturalist, and the Agony of the Planet -- Hunting for a Better Ecology -- If You Care about Nature You Can't Go On Hating the Germans Like This -- Virtually Hunting Reality in the Forests of Simulacra -- A Posthistoric Primitivism -- The Wilderness Is Where My Genome Lives.
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | GF 49 .S34 1996 | 285399 | Stacks | Available | - |
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