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Hace 4 días · Introduction: circulation and iconography. According to the political geographer Jean Gottmann, national territories are defined by two processes: on the one hand ‘circulation’, the movement of people and goods; and, on the other, ‘iconographie’, the symbolic systems that regulate and contain that movement. 1 In a French context, the most obvious element of iconography is the ...
Hace 3 días · His observations seem to contradict those ofJ. F. Carrington, as expounded in ‘A Com parative Study of Some Central African Gong Languages', Institut Royal Colonial Belge, Sciences morales et politiques, Mem. xviii, 3, 1949. Panorama of Ethnology 1950-1952 - Volume 1 Issue 2.
Hace 1 día · We could find food with fire and, with fire, preserve it. For good reason, the Greeks saw Prometheus as the forefather of all human culture because he brought the flame from heaven to the Earth. Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist, found this heavenly gift of tending fire in the myths of nearly every culture.
Hace 4 días · Claude Lévi-Strauss Identify the four main mechanisms of cultural change and give an example of each. The four main mechanisms of cultural change are diffusion, friction, innovation, and invention.
Hace 1 día · Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal.The meaning of "cannibalism" has been extended into zoology to describe animals consuming parts of individuals of the same species as food.. Anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and Homo antecessor are known to have practised ...
Hace 3 días · Anthropologist Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf in the preface written in 1962 edition to his famous book The Naked Nagas published originally in 1939, noted with a somewhat melancholic tone, ‘What I saw in 1936 and 1937 is now a page in India’s history, to be remembered and recorded but never to be observed again’ (Fig. 5.1).The transformations that prompted him to start his book with a ...
Hace 4 días · More recently one of Eichmann’s prosecutors, Micha, later delivers a Hebrew monologue to a conflicted young woman from the Jewish Agency. It’s a shattering dissertation on the emotional toll and necessity of remembrance. It’s also, perhaps, a tangential distraction from the narrative’s main events in Israel.
