The World of the Early Hunters: Medicine-men, shamans and artists book by LOMMEL Andreas

LOMMEL Andreas

Verlag: Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, London, 1967 Hardback

Beschreibung

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Dustcover is a mess but the actual book is great. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Because their world is represented today by only a few small remnants of dwindling human groups, there is a need for an intensive study of the early hunters of the Stone Age, their life and ideas, their way of thinking and their art. Hunters who still live today as they were living 10000 years ago are now to be found only in the northernmost regions of the earth: these are the well-known Eskimos. A few other groups have been preserved in Southern Africa, Australia, and South America, and there are a few infinitesimal remnants in South-East Asia. When we recall that all great civilizations, including our own, are based on agri culture, it at once becomes clear that the hunters represent an earlier stage of human culture, the one preceding agriculture. Thus the groups that still exist present the only opportunity for studying a highly interesting stage of cultural development dating from the earliest times. The central figure among hunters is the shaman. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Batch-FM268-G-6878

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The World of the Early Hunters: Medicine-men...

Verlag: Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, London, 1967 Hardback

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good