Fire and CivilizationAllen Lane, 1992 - 247 من الصفحات 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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الصفحة 68
... ( Possibly , this practice may help to explain the prohibition in several oriental religions of images of gods and people ; it may well have been inspired originally by the fear powerful persons had of being burned in effigy . ) Hattusa ...
... ( Possibly , this practice may help to explain the prohibition in several oriental religions of images of gods and people ; it may well have been inspired originally by the fear powerful persons had of being burned in effigy . ) Hattusa ...
الصفحة 165
... possibly even more impressive . Thus the British geographer and ecologist I. G. Simmons cites some figures indicating the rise in energy expressed in the standard unit of MJ or megajoules - available to people at various stages of socio ...
... possibly even more impressive . Thus the British geographer and ecologist I. G. Simmons cites some figures indicating the rise in energy expressed in the standard unit of MJ or megajoules - available to people at various stages of socio ...
الصفحة 208
... Possibly even more dramatic are the instances of individuals who , in order to draw attention to what they experience as unbearable injustice , burn themselves in public . - Pictures of all such events appear on television and in 208 ...
... Possibly even more dramatic are the instances of individuals who , in order to draw attention to what they experience as unbearable injustice , burn themselves in public . - Pictures of all such events appear on television and in 208 ...
المحتوى
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