Name: Flight From Grace: A Cultural History of Humans and Birds (en Inglés)
Price: 47880.00 CLP
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Author: Richard Pope
ISBN: 9780228005308

portada Flight From Grace: A Cultural History of Humans and Birds (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Mcgill Queens Univ Pr % Univ T

Autor

Richard Pope

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780228005308

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Flight From Grace: A Cultural History of Humans and Birds (en Inglés)

Richard Pope (Autor) · Mcgill Queens Univ Pr % Univ T · Tapa Dura

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Human animals are despoiling nature and causing a sixth extinction on Earth. Our natural environment is being compromised, and birds and other animals are disappearing at an alarming rate. Flight from Grace does not so much reveal the extent of the damage as ask and answer the perplexing question: why? This book traces human reverence for birds from the Stone Age and the New Stone Age, through the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Peru, and Greece and through biblical traditions, up to its vestiges in the present. Richard Pope takes a hard look at Judaeo-Christian and ancient Greek thought to demonstrate how the emergence of anthropocentrism and belittling of nature led to our present-day ecological dilemma. Striking images of cultural artifacts -- many little-known -- together with extensive discussion of art, music, literature, and religion illustrate the paradox in our contemporary relationship to the natural world. Humanity, in moving from its paleolithic origins to modern times, has simultaneously distanced itself from and disenchanted nature. Suggesting that the replacement of an animistic worldview with a mechanistic one has led humans to deny their animality, Flight from Grace calls on readers to appreciate how our past relationship with birds might help transform our current relationship with nature.