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 59
... priests . Being less strongly bound by practical restrictions , the priests could develop a wider range of cultural variations in fire use . Thus highly specific fire rituals were developed in Hinduism and Zoroastrianism . Another well ...
... priests . Being less strongly bound by practical restrictions , the priests could develop a wider range of cultural variations in fire use . Thus highly specific fire rituals were developed in Hinduism and Zoroastrianism . Another well ...
الصفحة 78
... priests . " Once priests had become part of the established social order , a new problem arose : how to regulate the relationships between them and the rest of the people . A large part of the legislation ascribed to Moses provides ...
... priests . " Once priests had become part of the established social order , a new problem arose : how to regulate the relationships between them and the rest of the people . A large part of the legislation ascribed to Moses provides ...
الصفحة 90
... priests of that time secretly took some fire from the altar and hid it in a pit which was like a dry well and shut it up securely so that the place remained unknown to all . Many years went by , and then , in God's own time , Nehemiah ...
... priests of that time secretly took some fire from the altar and hid it in a pit which was like a dry well and shut it up securely so that the place remained unknown to all . Many years went by , and then , in God's own time , Nehemiah ...
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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