Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times

Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times
Author: Tanja Pommerening
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110537273


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The volume presents phenomena of classification and categorisation in ancient and modern cultures and provides an overview of how cultural practices and cognitive systems interact when individuals or larger groups conceptually organize their world. Scientists of antiquity studies, anthropologists, linguists etc. will find methods to reconstruct early concepts of men and nature from a synchronic and diachronic comparative perspective.


Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Tanja Pommerening
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-11 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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The volume presents phenomena of classification and categorisation in ancient and modern cultures and provides an overview of how cultural practices and cogniti
Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Tanja Pommerening
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-11 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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The volume presents phenomena of classification and categorisation in ancient and modern cultures and provides an overview of how cultural practices and cogniti
Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors:
Categories: Categories (Philosophy)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher:

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Frühes Wissen um Mensch und Natur weist häufig kulturelle Parallelen auf. Daraus ergibt sich die Unterscheidung zwischen universellen und spezifischen Konzept
Textual Amulets from Antiquity to Early Modern Times
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Christoffer Theis
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Comparing amulets over time and space, this volume focuses on the function of written words on these fascinating artefacts. Ranging from Roman Egypt to the Midd
Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches from Antiquity to Early Modern Times
Language: en
Pages: 558
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-06 - Publisher: BRILL

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Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present