Hunting and the ivory tower : essays by scholars who hunt /
"Despite the academy having a reputation for supporting broad and open inquiry in scholarship, some academics have not extended this open-minded support to colleagues' personal pursuits. A variety of scholars enjoy hunting, which has been stereotyped by some as an activity of the unsophist...
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1632196 |
Obsah:
- Cover; Hunting and the Ivory Tower; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Academics and Hunting; Part I Between Academic and Hunting Cultures: Starting the Conversation; Gun and Gown: Coming Out of the Tower's Closet; Becoming-Academic and Becoming-Animal: New Jersey's Suburbia to the Alaskan Bush; Out of the Closet; The Knife, the Deer, and the Student: Academic Transformations; A View from the Saddle: The Provocative Mystique of Foxhunting Culture; Duck Dynasty: Hunting for Nonhunters; Part II Why We Hunt: Personal Accounts; Deer Stand.
- Snake Bit on the OgeecheeContemporary Medieval Boar Hunting; An Ode to Machines: On Coming Late to Hunting; Squirrel Hunting and the View from Here; Part III Because We Hunt: Intellectualizing Hunting; Hunting Ethics: Reflections from a (Mostly) Vegetarian Hunter; The Catch and Release Conundrum; Vacating the Human Condition: Academics, Hunters, and Animals According to Ortega y Gasset; Confessions of a Sublime Ape; Hunting Time: Philosophy Afield; Rebuilding the Wholesome Machinery of Excitement: Virtue and Hunting; Appendix: An Annotated List of Recommended Hunting Texts; Notes.