A Matter of Life and Death
A Matter of Life and Death: Hunting in Contemporary Vermont Marc Boglioli,
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 1558497153
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-08-31
Summary:
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.
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