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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72. oldal
... religion and community . ' It follows that we can expect two kinds of systematic distortion : first , a strong emphasis on religion and on the part which the god worshipped in this religion was supposed to have played in human history ...
... religion and community . ' It follows that we can expect two kinds of systematic distortion : first , a strong emphasis on religion and on the part which the god worshipped in this religion was supposed to have played in human history ...
74. oldal
... religious discipline and solidarity . The words fire and burning occur frequently in all these writings , almost always in the context of either religion or war . The authors show little interest in the control of fire as such . Thus ...
... religious discipline and solidarity . The words fire and burning occur frequently in all these writings , almost always in the context of either religion or war . The authors show little interest in the control of fire as such . Thus ...
130. oldal
... RELIGION Religion , Fire and the Narcissism of Small Differences One of the seemingly self - evident peculiarities of social and cultural development over the past 2,000 years is the predominant role of large - scale organized religions ...
... RELIGION Religion , Fire and the Narcissism of Small Differences One of the seemingly self - evident peculiarities of social and cultural development over the past 2,000 years is the predominant role of large - scale organized religions ...
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