Shepard, Paul

Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game

Foreword ix(16) Introduction xxv 1. Ten Thousand Years of Crisis 1(36) Making Wild Sheep Tame Husbandry, a Failure of Biological Style The Invention of Drudgery and Catastrophe The Lower Savagery Farming, an Ecological Disease 2. On the Responsibility of Being an Ape 37(50) The Evolution of Immaturity and Innocence High Society The Terrestrials The Apes, Our Cousins 3. On the Significance of Being Shaped by the Past 87(42) The Elegant Refinements of Social Carnivorousness Ancestors of the Hunting Heart On Agression and the Tender Carnivore 4. Hunting as a Way of Life 129(46) The Band of Hunter-Gatherers The Venatic Art Cynegetic Man Toolmaking as Natural History The Totemic Vision 5. The Karma of Adolescence 175(60) Self and Not-Self Discontinuity and Multiplicity Names and Games as the Purpose of Childhood The Initiates The Necessity of Risk and Solitude Dream Time as History The Antinomians 6. The Choice: Industrial Agriculture or Techno-Cynegetics 235(46) The Cultural Basis of Ecological Crisis The Perils of the Green Revolution The New Cynegetics Appendix 281(4) Bibliography 285(12) Index 297