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 38
... fire inevitably led to more consequences than those they directly pursued . One of these unfore- seen consequences was the formation , in the long run , of a new ' ecological regime ' , a fire regime that became an integral part of ...
... fire inevitably led to more consequences than those they directly pursued . One of these unfore- seen consequences was the formation , in the long run , of a new ' ecological regime ' , a fire regime that became an integral part of ...
الصفحة 39
... fire , they became pyrophytes , addicted to fire . And thus , by implication , they had no choice but to continue living under a fire regime . As a socio - cultural regime , the fire regime tended to strengthen group ties . It was by ...
... fire , they became pyrophytes , addicted to fire . And thus , by implication , they had no choice but to continue living under a fire regime . As a socio - cultural regime , the fire regime tended to strengthen group ties . It was by ...
الصفحة 196
... fire regime . The fire regime , the complex of socio - cultural commands and options with regard to fire , has changed in the course of time . In his classic study Norbert Elias drew attention to a sentence from a fourteenth - century ...
... fire regime . The fire regime , the complex of socio - cultural commands and options with regard to fire , has changed in the course of time . In his classic study Norbert Elias drew attention to a sentence from a fourteenth - century ...
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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