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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... technical term for referring to all those aspects of behaviour that are ' learned , shared , and transmitted ' . I intend to use the word civilization in a similar , non - evaluative fashion . As a technical term , ' civilization ' is ...
... technical term for referring to all those aspects of behaviour that are ' learned , shared , and transmitted ' . I intend to use the word civilization in a similar , non - evaluative fashion . As a technical term , ' civilization ' is ...
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... technical progress ' . Later she added that it also required new forms of social organization . These points are valid . However , rather than setting the technical aspect in opposition to the mental and the social , I think all three ...
... technical progress ' . Later she added that it also required new forms of social organization . These points are valid . However , rather than setting the technical aspect in opposition to the mental and the social , I think all three ...
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... technical control . The self - restraint necessary for handling the fire competently , without either recklessness or panic , was enhanced by confidence , based upon the observation of others as well as upon one's own experience , that ...
... technical control . The self - restraint necessary for handling the fire competently , without either recklessness or panic , was enhanced by confidence , based upon the observation of others as well as upon one's own experience , that ...
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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