Duke Professor Lectures on Animal-Human
Boundaries Wednesday, February
2
Duke
University Professor of Biological
Anthropology and Anatomy Matt Cartmill
will give a lecture on "The Bloody Edge:
Hunting and the Animal-Human Boundary in
Western Thought" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Feb. 2, in Irvine Hall on Ohio
University's Athens campus.
Cartmill
will survey the intellectual history of
symbolic meanings of the hunt in Western
art, literature and science, from
classical mythology to 20th century
theories of evolutionary origins. He is a
fellow and past president of the American
Association of Physical
Anthropologists.
Cartmill
is one of 14 Phi Beta Kappa visiting
scholars for 1999-2000. The visiting
scholars spend two days on a campus,
meeting informally with students and
faculty members, taking part in classroom
discussions and giving a public
lecture.
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