| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Hunting and the Ivory Tower; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Academics and Hunting; Part I Between Academic and Hunting Cultures: Starting the Conversation; Gun and Gown: Coming Out of the Tower's Closet; Becoming-Academic and Becoming-Animal: New Jersey's Suburbia to the Alaskan Bush; Out of the Closet; The Knife, the Deer, and the Student: Academic Transformations; A View from the Saddle: The Provocative Mystique of Foxhunting Culture; Duck Dynasty: Hunting for Nonhunters; Part II Why We Hunt: Personal Accounts; Deer Stand |
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Snake Bit on the OgeecheeContemporary Medieval Boar Hunting; An Ode to Machines: On Coming Late to Hunting; Squirrel Hunting and the View from Here; Part III Because We Hunt: Intellectualizing Hunting; Hunting Ethics: Reflections from a (Mostly) Vegetarian Hunter; The Catch and Release Conundrum; Vacating the Human Condition: Academics, Hunters, and Animals According to Ortega y Gasset; Confessions of a Sublime Ape; Hunting Time: Philosophy Afield; Rebuilding the Wholesome Machinery of Excitement: Virtue and Hunting; Appendix: An Annotated List of Recommended Hunting Texts; Notes |
| Summary |
"Despite the academy having a reputation for supporting broad and open inquiry in scholarship, some academics have not extended this open-minded support to colleagues' personal pursuits. A variety of scholars enjoy hunting, which has been stereotyped by some as an activity of the unsophisticated. In Hunting and the Ivory Tower, Douglas Higbee and David Bruzina present essays by seventeen hunter-scholars who explore the hunting experience and question negative assumptions about hunting made by intellectuals and academics who do not hunt. Higbee and Bruzina suspect most academics' understanding of hunting is based on brief television news reports of hunter-politicians and commercials for reality TV shows such as Duck Dynasty. The editors contend that few scholars appreciate the complexities of hunting or give much thought to its ethical, ecological, and cultural ramifications. Through this anthology they hope to start a conversation about both hunting and academia and how they relate. The contributors to this anthology are academics from a variety of disciplines, each with firsthand hunting experience. Their essays vary in style and tone from the scholarly to the personal and represent the different ways in which scholars engage with their avocation. The essays are grouped into three sections: the first focuses on the often-fraught relation between hunters and academic culture; the second section offers personal accounts of hunting by academics; and the third portrays hunting from an explicitly academic point of view, whether in terms of value theory, metaphysics, or history. Combined, these essays render hunting as a culturally rich, deeply personal, and intellectually satisfying experience worthy of further discussion. A foreword is provided by Robert DeMott, the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He is a teacher, writer, critic, and internationally respected expert on novelist John Steinbeck."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2018) |
| Subject |
Hunting.
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College teachers -- Recreation
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hunting.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Field Sports.
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EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Hunting
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Higbee, Douglas, 1970- editor.
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Bruzina, David, editor
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| LC no. |
2018008884 |
| ISBN |
9781611178500 |
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1611178509 |
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