The Age of Deer : Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

Howsare, Erika,

The Age of Deer : Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors - First Catapult edition. - xxiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-336).

Introduction -- Part 1: Standing. Dancing -- Goods -- The graph -- Value -- Kinfolk -- Part II: Struggling. Capacity -- Decline -- Management -- Should not be -- Bodies -- Pests -- The cull -- Victims -- Part III: Craving. The fetish -- For show -- November dawns -- Craving.

In this masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies, the author investigates our connection with deer, from mythology to biology, offering a unique and intimate perfective on a very human relationship while inviting us to contemplate the paradoxes of how we interact with and shape the natural world.

9781646221349

2023936804


Deer.
Deer--Effect of human beings on.
Human-animal relationships.
Animal welfare.
Animals and civilization.

QL737.U55H69