Southern Hunting in Black and White

Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community

Stuart A. Marks

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780691028514
  9780691094526
• eBook ISBN:
  9780691226866
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

For many Southern men living in or close to rural landscapes, hunting is a passion. But it is not a timeless activity in a cultural void. Whether pursuers of fox or raccoon, deer or rabbits, quail or dove, Southern hunters reveal for Stuart Marks complex patterns of male bonding, social status, and relationships with nature. Marks, who has written two outstanding books on hunting in Africa, was born and has long lived in the South. Examining Southern hunting from frontier times through the antebellum era to the present day, he shows it to be a litmus test of rural identity. "Drawing on the latest anthropological theory, statistical sources, extensive interviews, and historical research, [Marks] has crafted a multifaceted account of Southern hunting. Relations of race, property, gender, and region appear in fresh guises in this innovative and intriguing study. The portrayal of the contemporary state of hunting is especially interesting, revealing both the continuities with the past and the new pressures on the sport."--Virginia Quarterly Review

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• One: On Metaphors and Models
• Part One: On Incorporating the Past in the Present
• Part Two: On Interpreting the Present
• Appendix A: Questionnaire about Wild Animals and Hunting
• Notes to the Chapters
• Index