Research Catalog

Title

Going wild : hunting, animal rights, and the contested meaning of nature / Jan E. Dizard.

Author

Dizard, Jan E., 1940-

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994.

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Description

xvi, 182 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Pivoting on a recent controversy over a proposed deer hunt on the largest public watershed in Massachusetts, sociologist Dizard explores how different people think of nature. He interviewed resource managers, animals rights advocates, hunters, and environmentalists and discovered that those who supported the hunt thought nature was chaotic and dangerous and had to be managed, and those who opposed it thought nature was fragile and should be left alone.

Subject

• Animal Rights
• Animal rights > Quabbin Reservation
• Animals, Wild
• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Deer hunting > Moral and ethical aspects > Quabbin Reservation
• Deer hunting > Quabbin Reservation > Moral and ethical aspects
• Forest management > Moral and ethical aspects > Quabbin Reservation
• Forest management > Quabbin Reservation > Moral and ethical aspects
• Massachusetts
• Wildlife management > Moral and ethical aspects > Quabbin Reservation
• Wildlife management > Quabbin Reservation > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What's wild -- Let nature be -- Taking care of nature -- Sport, management, or murder: ambiguity and ambivalence in modern hunting -- Nature's rights and human responsibility -- Constructing nature.

ISBN

• 0870239082 (alk. paper)
• 0870239090 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93038718^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library