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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare

2 reviews

nbonarski's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

A lovely book about the entwined relationship of man and deer. Covering symbolism, funeral traditions, hunting and man's influence on deer and our role in deer population control and care. Primarily focused on USA history of white tail. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Blood and Car accident

Minor: Colonisation, Slavery, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Gore, and Excrement

The mild warnings are used in historical recalling and are stated in a matter of fact way. Sections of the book describe deer death and deer processing. Includes descriptions of deer-car collisions.

marywahlmeierbracciano's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.75

In The Age of Deer, Erika Howsare details the rich history of deer across cultures and contexts—from their hoofprints in the earth to their envied crowns of antlers; in stories and art, forests and gardens, crosshairs and truck beds.  The resulting narrative is largely about our human relationship with deer—at times symbiotic and reverent, then grotesque, dominating.  The author approaches the topic of hunting with an outsider’s trepidation, but her journalistic immersion into that world completely changed my perspective.  I savored this book—its stunning, thought-provoking presence—slowly.  I’ll never look at a deer the same way again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Death, Gore, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Colonisation and Racism