Flight from Grace : A Cultural History of Humans and Birds

Name: Flight from Grace : A Cultural History of Humans and Birds
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press

McGill-Queen's University Press

Flight from GraceA Cultural History of Humans and Birds\nAuthor(s): Richard Pope\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228005308, 978-0228005308\nSynopsis\nHuman animals are despoiling nature and causing a sixth extinction on Earth. Our natural environment is being compromised, and birds and other animals are disappearing at an alarming rate. Flight from Grace does not so much reveal the extent of the damage as ask and answer the perplexing question: why?\n\nThis book traces human reverence for birds from the Stone Age and the New Stone Age, through the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Peru, and Greece and through biblical traditions, up to its vestiges in the present. Richard Pope takes a hard look at Judaeo-Christian and ancient Greek thought to demonstrate how the emergence of anthropocentrism and belittling of nature led to our present-day ecological dilemma. Striking images of cultural artifac.