Ance 02/10/24
The restoration of Borobudur was indeed a unique experience. Many new techniques and a completely new approach to conservation science were used and developed. Those who have been involved with the restoration wish to share their ex- perience as widely as possible.rn
Voici la traduction de l'ouvrage intitulé originellement a La cultura hispano-arabe en Oriente y Occidente » dont j'ai achevé la rédaction en 1974 mais dont la publication, pour diverses raisons, fut retardée jusqu'en 1978. De 1974 à 1984 le temps a passé et de nouvelles découvertes, peu nombreuses à vrai dire, me conduisent à enrichir la matière que j'exposais dans l'édition espagn…
SECTION IL. In its widest possible extension the title of this book -Adventures of Ideas-might be taken as a synonym for The His- tory of The Human Race, in respect to its wide variety of mental experiences. In this sense of the title, the Human Race must experi- ence its own history. It cannot be written in its total variety.rn
In recent years, most anthropologists have readopted an evolutionary point of view, but have rephrased it in multilinear terms and disassociated it from the more conjectural earlier attempts to trace the origin of customs and insti- rutions. There is not yet available, however, a global scheme for the stages of sociocultural evolution that is based on the most recent contributions from archeolo…
MATERIAL LIFE is made up of people and things. The study of things, of every thing mankind makes or uses food, housing, clothing, luxury, tools, coinage or its substitutes, framework of village and town is not the only way of analysing daily life. The number of people who share the wealth of the world is also significant. The outward feature that immediately differentiates the present world fro…
THE TIME has long since passed when modern man could think of the world as consisting of Europe and the United States. Western culture is, of course, primarily a product of European origins. But it has never been that exclusively. Its original foundations were in Southwestern Asia and North Africa. These were soon supplemented by influences seeping in from India and eventually from China. From …
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Of course the younger generation are always critical of their elders. They always imagine that the world has only been awaiting their arrival and intervention to become a better and a happier place. But it needs a great deal more than that, a great deal more than such a mild troubling of the waters, to account for a change so abrupt and so decisive as that we are now considering. One day, the F…
the causality underlying highly comples groups of fact thecy yield slowly before methods of science or scholat ship developed step by step, systematically, cumula tively. We possess only partial and scattered techniques as yet to help us answer why civilizations are as they are I therefore renounce at the outset any claim of presem ing nations. Before such understanding of cause can be ing new …