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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158. oldal
... social circumstances ; it made sense , therefore , to regard the act of suicide as a desperate last solution sought by people for problems resulting from the social situation in which they found themselves . " The same might be said of ...
... social circumstances ; it made sense , therefore , to regard the act of suicide as a desperate last solution sought by people for problems resulting from the social situation in which they found themselves . " The same might be said of ...
196. oldal
... social reality than a natural reality ' . The social prohibitions are the first . The natural experience comes only in the second place to furnish a material proof which is unexpected and hence too obscure to establish an item of ...
... social reality than a natural reality ' . The social prohibitions are the first . The natural experience comes only in the second place to furnish a material proof which is unexpected and hence too obscure to establish an item of ...
246. oldal
... social stratification and fire use , 111-12 sources , 97 temple fires , 121 Rotterdam , 183 Royal Society for the ... social classes , 169-70 , 205-6 social constraints , 129 social control , 10-11 social distinctions , 36-7 social fire ...
... social stratification and fire use , 111-12 sources , 97 temple fires , 121 Rotterdam , 183 Royal Society for the ... social classes , 169-70 , 205-6 social constraints , 129 social control , 10-11 social distinctions , 36-7 social fire ...
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