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DUKE
PROFESSOR LECTURES ON ANIMAL-HUMAN BOUNDARIES WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 2
Editors:
A photo of Matt Cartmill is available at www.ohiou.edu/news/pix/CARTMILL.JPG
ATHENS,
Ohio -- 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 author of "A View to a Death in the Morning;
Hunting and Nature Through History," co-author of "Human
Structure" and former editor-in-chief of the American
Journal of Physical Anthropology.
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.
Cartmill
is a fellow and past president of the American Association
of Physical Anthropologists. He has received fellowships and
grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National
Science Foundation and the Guggenheim and Leakey
foundations. He is the recipient of the Duke University
Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award and the Duke Medical
Alumni Teaching Award.
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