A Matter of Life and Death: Hunting in Contemporary Vermont

摘要: 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 unnecessary assault on innocent wildlife. other lauded exemplars no-nonsense rugged individualism. Yet despite passion that surrounds subject, we rarely hear unfiltered voices actual discussions hunting. In A Matter Life Death, anthropologist Marc Boglioli puts human face group widely regarded morally suspect, currently stands crossfire America's so-called culture wars. Drawing extensive ethnographic fieldwork Addison County, Vermont, which took him from hunting camps sporting goods stores to local bars kitchen tables, focuses how contemporary hunters, women well men, understand their relationship prey. He shows hunters' attitudes toward animals flow directly rural lifeways have continued maintain encroaching urban sensibilities. The result is rare glimpse into experiences wild way at once violent, consumptive, respectful, regards enduring link vanishing past. It book will challenge readers -- non-hunters, anti-hunters alike reconsider what constitutes appropriate with non-human residents planet.