Heartsblood : hunting, spirituality, and wildness in America

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Heartsblood : hunting, spirituality, and wildness in America / David Petersen.

Petersen, David, 1946- (Author).

Summary:

Petersen, a hunter and outdoorsman, offers a personal, carefully considered exploration of hunting, drawing on a great deal of literature in the field, including biological, philosophical, spiritual, political, and particularly ethical perspectives on hunters and hunting.

Record details

ISBN: 1559637617
ISBN: 9781559637619
ISBN: 1559637625
ISBN: 9781559637626
Physical Description: xviii, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, �2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.