A Matter of Life and Death

Hunting in Contemporary Vermont

Marc Boglioli (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2009
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-55849-716-0 (ISBN)

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American hunters occupy a remarkably complex place in this country's cultural and political landscape. On the one hand, they are cast as perpetrators of an anachronistic and unnecessary assault on innocent wildlife. On the other hand, they are lauded as exemplars of no-nonsense American rugged individualism. Yet despite the passion that surrounds the subject, we rarely hear the unfiltered voices of actual hunters in discussions of hunting. In A Matter of Life and Death, anthropologist Marc Boglioli puts a human face on a group widely regarded as morally suspect, one that currently stands in the crossfire of America's so-called culture wars. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Addison County, Vermont, which took him from hunting camps and sporting goods stores to local bars and kitchen tables, Boglioli focuses on how contemporary hunters, women as well as men, understand their relationship to their prey. He shows how hunters' attitudes toward animals flow directly from the rural lifeways they have continued to maintain in the face of encroaching urban sensibilities. The result is a rare glimpse into a culture that experiences wild animals in a way that is at once violent, consumptive, and respectful, and that regards hunting as an enduring link to a vanishing past. It is a book that will challenge readers--hunters, non-hunters, and anti-hunters alike--to reconsider what constitutes a morally appropriate relationship with the non-human residents of this planet.

Marc Boglioli is assistant professor of anthropology at Drew University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.12.2009
Verlagsort	Massachusetts
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	293 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-55849-716-1 / 1558497161
ISBN-13	978-1-55849-716-0 / 9781558497160
Zustand	Neuware