鹿的时代:与野生邻居的问题和亲缘关系 The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Catapult (January 2, 2024)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1646221346

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1646221349

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.18 pounds

Dimensions:149 x 217 x 29 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这本书将自然写作和文化研究巧妙地结合在一起，调查了我们与鹿的关系——从神话到生物学，从森林到城市，从共存到控制和灭绝——并邀请读者思考人类如何与自然世界互动和塑造自然世界的悖论

几千年来，鹿一直是人类居住的世界的重要组成部分。它们是为数不多的能在我们面前茁壮成长的大型动物之一。在21世纪，我们的关系充满了矛盾:我们捕猎和保护它们，我们把它们从郊区剔除，同时把它们变成荒野的象征，我们把它们既是受害者，又是害虫。但毫无疑问，我们与鹿有着联系:在神话和故事中，在生物和数字生态系统中，在城市和森林中。

Erika Howsare深入研究这些错综复杂的态度的历史根源，以及它们在当今如何表现出来，她观察到科学家捕获小鹿并给它们戴上颈圈，猎人炫耀他们的战利品，一位博物馆的解说员一边晒鹿皮一边教授美国历史，一位动物管理官员收集被神枪手杀死的鹿的尸体，以及一位妇女在她的后院用瓶子喂养孤儿小鹿。当她报道这些故事时，Howsare的目光总是放在更大的画面上:为什么我们会以我们的方式看待鹿，这些动物揭示了人类在自然世界中的作用?

A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer—from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination—and invites readers to contemplate the paradoxes of how humans interact with and shape the natural world

Deer have been an important part of the world that humans occupy for millennia. They’re one of the only large animals that can thrive in our presence. In the 21st century, our relationship is full of contradictions: We hunt and protect them, we cull them from suburbs while making them an icon of wilderness, we see them both as victims and as pests. But there is no doubt that we have a connection to deer: in mythology and story, in ecosystems biological and digital, in cities and in forests.

Delving into the historical roots of these tangled attitudes and how they play out in the present, Erika Howsare observes scientists capture and collar fawns, hunters show off their trophies, a museum interpreter teaching American history while tanning a deer hide, an animal-control officer collecting the carcasses of deer killed by sharpshooters, and a woman bottle-raising orphaned fawns in her backyard. As she reports these stories, Howsare’s eye is always on the bigger picture: Why do we look at deer in the ways we do, and what do these animals reveal about human involvement in the natural world?  

作者简介

ERIKA HOWSARE拥有布朗大学文学艺术硕士学位，并出版了两本诗集。她还在当地新闻工作了20年，报道文化和环境问题。她教授写作，并为各种全国性媒体撰写评论和文章。

ERIKA HOWSARE holds an MFA in literary arts from Brown University and has published two books of poetry. She also worked in local journalism for twenty years, covering culture and environmental issues. She teaches writing and contributes reviews and essays to various national outlets.