Title:
The age of deer : trouble and kinship with our wild neighbors
JLCTITLE245:
Erika Howsare.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Catapult edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Catapult, 2024
Physical Description:
xxiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781646221349
Abstract:
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.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-336).
Contents:
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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography.