Southern Hunting in Black and White : : Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community / / Stuart A. Marks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Marks, Stuart A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

For many Southern men living in or close to rural landscapes, hunting is a passion. But it is not a timeless activity in a cultural void. Whether pursuers of fox or raccoon, deer or rabbits, quail or dove, Southern hunters reveal for Stuart Marks complex patterns of male bonding, social status, and relationships with nature. Marks, who has written two outstanding books on hunting in Africa, was born and has long lived in the South. Examining Southern hunting from frontier times through the antebellum era to the present day, he shows it to be a litmus test of rural identity. "Drawing on the latest anthropological theory, statistical sources, extensive interviews, and historical research, [Marks] has crafted a multifaceted account of Southern hunting. Relations of race, property, gender, and region appear in fresh guises in this innovative and intriguing study. The portrayal of the contemporary state of hunting is especially interesting, revealing both the continuities with the past and the new pressures on the sport."--Virginia Quarterly Review

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One On Metaphors and Models -- Part One ON INCORPORATING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT -- Two Propriety and Property: Hunting, Culture, and Agriculture in Antebellum Carolina -- Three Progress and Poverty: Sportsmen, Agriculture, and Development in Postbellum Carolina -- Four Pursuits and Provincialism: Contemporary County Hunters and Their Concerns -- Part Two ON INTERPETING THE PRESENT -- Introduction to Part Two -- Five Fox Field Trials: Separating the Men from the Boys by Going to the Dogs -- Six Homed Heads and Twitching Tails: An Interpretation of Buck-Hunting Rituals -- Seven A Bird in Hand: Coveted Covey and Flying Furies -- Eight Small Game for Large Numbers: Stalking Squirrels and Running Rabbits -- Nine Up a Tree: Of Honorable Hounds and Crafty Creatures -- Ten Fowl Play: The Passage from Quail to Quacks -- Appendix A Questionnaire about Wild Animals and Hunting -- Appendix B Questionnaire about Individuals, Family, Community, and Society -- Notes to the Chapters -- Index