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- Title
"Denizens of the Forest": Hunting Black Bears and Identity in the Mississippi Delta.
- Authors
Stith, Matthew M.
- Abstract
The article discusses hunting Black Bears in the southern states in the U..S and its significance as a symbol of masculine identity and combativeness of the hunters who killed these bears. Topics include the symbolic significance of black bears to nineteenth-century southern identity and culture, the hunters and the humorists who told and wrote exaggerated stories about the bear hunting and how deforestation and market hunting destroyed wildlife populations in the U.S. southern frontier.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BLACK bear hunting; HUNTING -- History; MASCULINITY; HUNTER attitudes; HUNTING; FIGHTING (Psychology); DEFORESTATION
- Publication
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, 2015, Vol 46, Issue 3, p163
- ISSN
1075-4008
- Publication type
Article