Making Game: An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things, and the Strangeness of Being Who One Is (Cultural Dialectics, Vol.2)

168 Pages·2009·1.08 MB·English

by  Peter L. Atkinson

MAKING GAME
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Peter and Linn at age 19
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MAKING GAME
An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things,
and the Strangeness of Being Who One Is
Peter L. Atkinson
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© 2009 Peter L. Atkinson
Published by AU Press, Athabasca University
1200, 10011 – 109 Street
Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8
Atkinson, Peter, 1952–
Making game: an essay on hunting, familiar things,
and the strangeness of being who one is / Peter Atkinson.
(Cultural dialectics 1915-836x)
Also available in electronic format.
ISBN 978-1-897425-28-2
1. Atkinson, Peter, 1952–. 2. Hunting – Philosophy. 3. Hunting –
Moral and ethical aspects. 5. Hunters – United States–Biography.
I. Title. II. Series: Cultural dialectics series (Print)
SK17.A85A3 2008 799.292 C2008-907672-9
Printed and bound in Canada by AGMV Marquis
Layout and book design by Infoscan Collette, Quebec City
Cover design by Nancy Biamonte
Frontispiece photo by Stephen Bulloch
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original author.
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For Linn and our boys.
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Contents
Acknowledgments..................................................... ix
Zero
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One
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Two
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Three
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Four
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Five
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Six
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Seven
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Eight
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Nine
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Acknowledgments
I should like to acknowledge just a handful of the persons still
living without whom, no matter how poorly made, these pages
could not have been written: my brothers, Matthew and Leeds;
Stuart Hutson, for quail and a long friendship in the wild;
Thomas Brown for elk, Harvey Mudd for fly fishing and my
first taste of the west; J. Mark Smith for his intellectual com-
panionship; Glen Davis for teaching me how to read; Robert
T. Cooke, for years of encouragement; John Sanders for his
example; and, beyond all others, James McMichael.
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