Flight from grace : a cultural history of humans and birds / Richard Pope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pope, Richard, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds--Social aspects--History.

Birds.

Human-animal relationships.

Human ecology.

Birds in art.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec province ; Kingston, Canada ; London, England ; Chicago, Illinois : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Suggesting that the replacement of an animistic worldview with a mechanistic one has led humans to deny their animality, Flight from Grace calls on readers to appreciate how our past relationship with birds might help transform our current relationship with nature.

Contents:

Divine Implications: Telltale Evidence

Animism and the Sacred

Birds in Palaeolithic Cave Wall Art

Birds in Palaeolithic Portable Art

Birds in Neolithic Art: Anatolia, Iraq, Syria, and Europe

Sacred Birds of Mesopotamia and Egypt

Sacred Birds of Peru

Sacred Birds of Greece and the Judeo-Christian World

Gods as Birds: The Magic of Flight

Sacred Music: The Ecstasy of Birdsong

Birds Betrayed: Sapiens at Its Worst

What Went Wrong?

What Is to Be Done?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-282) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Pope, Richard Flight from Grace

ISBN:

9780228013709

OCLC:

1310342206