Fire and CivilizationAllen Lane, 1992 - 247 oldal Fire is a destructive force. It is also a great purveyor of the advancement of human life. In an exploration of this dichotomy, Goudsblom investigates man and his realtionship to--and fascination with--combustion from every possible perspective--historical, archaeological, anthropological, psychological, biological, ecological, and sociological--illuminating the legacy of fire on world history. |
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59. oldal
... peasants , craftspeople , warriors and priests . For peasants , fire continued to be indispensable for a wide range of purposes , from domestic cooking to the burning of stubble and waste . Apart from seasonal fire festivals , the uses ...
... peasants , craftspeople , warriors and priests . For peasants , fire continued to be indispensable for a wide range of purposes , from domestic cooking to the burning of stubble and waste . Apart from seasonal fire festivals , the uses ...
64. oldal
... peasants and craftspeople into sub- mission . These peasants and craftspeople had no choice . In order to pursue the productive activities on which their social existence hinged they needed warriors – to protect them from other warriors ...
... peasants and craftspeople into sub- mission . These peasants and craftspeople had no choice . In order to pursue the productive activities on which their social existence hinged they needed warriors – to protect them from other warriors ...
70. oldal
... peasantry living in the country no such rules appear to have been laid down until quite recently . This was , I think , not only because the peasants were illiterate but also because there was less need for such regulations . Peasants ...
... peasantry living in the country no such rules appear to have been laid down until quite recently . This was , I think , not only because the peasants were illiterate but also because there was less need for such regulations . Peasants ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Fire Civilization The domestication of fire as a civilizing process Plan | 8 |
The stage of predominantly passive use of fire The transition to active use of fire | 20 |
The widening gap between humans and other animals Clearing land Cooking | 37 |
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According agrarian societies altar ancient animals anthropologist archaeologist arson became behaviour bush caused chimpanzees civilizing campaign civilizing process combustion conflagrations continued control fire control of fire control over fire cooking cultivation cultural destruction domestication of fire dominant early ecological effect Elias Elijah Empire energy fire brigade fire regime flames force forest fuel gathering and hunting Greek fire handling fire Hanunóo Hattusa hearth heat Hephaestus Herodotus Hesiod Hestia highly historian hominids Homo erectus houses human groups Iliad incendiarism increasing increasingly individual industrial intensive growth Israel Israelites Jones land later learned light living long run Lord military military-agrarian modern Molech natural Norbert Elias nuclear fusion Odysseus organization peasants Perlès population priests problem production pyrophytes religion Roman Rome set fire Shifting Cultivation slash and burn smoke social socio-cultural steam technical temple towns trend twentieth century urban weapons Western Europe wood