Southern Hunting in Black and White : : Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community / / Stuart A. Marks.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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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