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 45
... probably helped to prepare people for the strains of an agrarian regime full of self - imposed renunciation for the sake of ' deferred gratification ' . The most striking , and in the literature the most frequently dis- cussed ...
... probably helped to prepare people for the strains of an agrarian regime full of self - imposed renunciation for the sake of ' deferred gratification ' . The most striking , and in the literature the most frequently dis- cussed ...
الصفحة 78
... probably , certain influential people would have taken the lead and compelled others to follow their example . Such enlightened leaders may well have been the forerunners of the religious specialists , the priests . " Once priests had ...
... probably , certain influential people would have taken the lead and compelled others to follow their example . Such enlightened leaders may well have been the forerunners of the religious specialists , the priests . " Once priests had ...
الصفحة 199
... probably waning . Clearly , in the highly industrialized rich societies , all sorts of specialists have acquired an unequalled professional expertise in dealing with fire . Some , such as stokers and welders , find themselves confronted ...
... probably waning . Clearly , in the highly industrialized rich societies , all sorts of specialists have acquired an unequalled professional expertise in dealing with fire . Some , such as stokers and welders , find themselves confronted ...
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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