Animals and Death

Hunting, Modernity, and the Crisis of the Wild

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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From pets to prey to food, the hierarchy of animals' relationship to humans has profound anthropological and ecological implications. Modernity has divided animals into two categories: those deemed worthy of protection and affection, and those reduced to raw material for industry. How can we make sense of this strange split between protective love and intensive exploitation? Hunting, which both predates this opposition and continues to unsettle it, provides an exceptional vantage point from which to examine our contradictory relationship with living beings in the midst of an ecological crisis. Drawing on an immersive field study, Charles Stépanoff documents the accelerated erosion of rural biodiversity, and the paradoxical relationships between hunting, protection, and compassion. Over the course of this rich journey, he sheds new light on the anthropological and ecological foundations of the violence inflicted on living beings, as well as on the wild origins of political sovereignty. Ultimately, by questioning the peculiar moral hierarchy that this violence produces today, Stépanoff gives our moral and emotional perception a deeper field of vision.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-03
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:350
Förlag:HAU
ISBN:9781914363535
Översättare:Scott, Nora

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Charles Stépanoff is director of studies in the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Stépanoff is the author of Journeys into the Invisible, also published by HAU. Nora Scott has translated numerous books in anthropology and related social sciences. In 2013, she was awarded the prestigious French-American Foundation Translation Prize.

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FiguresIntroductionPart One. Wars of the WildChapter 1. The Great Depopulation of the PlainsChapter 2. The Partridge DisasterChapter 3. The Flight of the SwallowChapter 4. The Hedge, an Edge between WorldsChapter 5. The Triumph of the “Bête Noire”Chapter 6. Eat What You Kill, Kill What You EatChapter 7. My Intimate PestChapter 8. From Gathering to Harvesting: The Management RevolutionChapter 9. A Neo-Savage Ritual in FranceChapter 10. Commercial HuntingChapter 11. The Forest Is at WarChapter 12. Of Dogs and MenChapter 13. Animism in Minor ModeChapter 14. Pleasure and ImaginationPart Two. Sovereignty and Wild Blood from the Beginning to the Present DayChapter 15. The Empathetic PredatorChapter 16. Cosmopolitical PowerChapter 17. The Raven’s Share: An Outline of the Ontology of ButcheryChapter 18. Society of Landowners and Disciplinary PowerChapter 19. Protection and CompassionPart Three. Ethics and Counter-Ethics of PredationChapter 20. The Stag’s TearsChapter 21. “A Woman Who Kills Is a Monster”Chapter 22. The Hermit, the Monk, and the HunterChapter 23. Anti-Hunting SentimentChapter 24. On the Division of Moral LaborConclusion. Metaphysics of PredationAcknowledgmentsReferences