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.