Introduction
The quantities of intangible cultural elements and forms that are mutual and shared by a wide variety of national communities are diverse (Mazrouei, 2010, p. 1). Many communities in the past found and continue to find themselves sharing similar cultural forms with their neighbors as well as with others miles away. History informs that there were many human processes and forces that justify the shared cultural unities. These forces include independent inventions, parallel inventions and evolution, and psychic unity of humanity (Khalaf, 2009, p. 308). Human relation with animals and birds is one of the examples that reinforce this anthropological assertion. Falconry rightfully fits in this anthropology statement. Falconry is practiced
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The Germanic tribes that practiced falconry overran the West. The evidence of falconry is found in the Germanic early laws. The conditions given for falconry in these laws indicate that the practice took its rightful place both as a leisure activity for the advantaged as well as a means of livelihood for the less privileged. These laws are contained in the Salic Laws dated 500AD. The fines imposed on stealing hawks vary depending on whether or not the hawk was trained for hunting. The highest fine was imposed on those who stole trained hawks from inside the owner’s compound. Since sparrow-hawks are common in Europe and do not make good hunters, the fine imposed on stealing a sparrow-hawk is relatively low as they were not held in high esteem. This is a clear indication that falcons were a fundamental part of the early German’s way of …show more content…
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The game of golf is one of the oldest of today’s modern sports. Its exact beginnings are not known; however, some historians trace golf back to the Stone Age while others claim it originated from the “idle antics of shepherd boys knocking small stones into holes in the ground with a crook while their flocks grazed nearby” (Peper 1). Researched back to the time of the Roman Empire, it is also believed the sports-oriented Romans played a forerunner of the game of golf called paganica. This sport involved the use of a bent stick and a ball stuffed with wool played in the open countryside.
The Navajo Sand Paintings is an example of a sacred symbolic object commonly misinterpreted as nothing more than an artistic piece of primitive art. In actuality, the beauty is being overseen because Navajo sand paintings have more significance. This so called `piece of art' serves as a major device, but in a...
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The “sport of kings” is one of the oldest sports still in existence today. In fact, versions of the game were played so long ago that a definite origin of the game cannot be determined. Due to the expense of owning and training the best horses, it was primarily nobles who played the game. Because of this, polo was spread as nations conquered others, and it disappeared in areas as noble classes died. Thus, the game was often born and reborn in so many versions that the term polo (translated from several ancient and modern languages) grew to encompass a wide variety of games involving a stick, ball and players on horseback.
When walking around a city, you may notice that the architecture and art look similar to other works. Many of these designs have changed along the course of history and time whilst others have not. The designs that many people still see in society and day to day living is from two of the many cultures of the old civilizations, Roman and Islamic. The art and architecture forms from the Islamic and Roman cultures have many comparisons and contrasts between them. They, the Islamic and Roman nations, have both adopted from other cultures and have made their own discoveries in the art and architecture worlds. The Roman and Islamic architecture and art vary drastically from each other and yet have varying comparisons between the two.
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This stating of terms of the definition of sport is arguably the most prominent of arguments in this chapter. As Donald Kyle, author of Sport and Spectacle, rightly suggests, some may indeed question his approach to the exclusion of fencing, duelling and gladiatorial combat. Whilst other reviewers such as Stephen Instone comment on Poliakoff’s general lack of argument, and some just waive this chapter as satisfactory, All...
...quite some time. Indeed a hundred years from now, nations, for example, Egypt, Italy, and France will at present hold their customary architectural charm regardless will be worth going by, paying little mind to which drive wins. All around a large portion of the Arab standard, architects, and the overall population, appear to a huge degree to withdraw themselves from the architectural models of their neighborhood legacy, which they perceive as old fashioned, mediocre, and less equipped to adapt to cutting edge necessities, and rather float positively towards Western ideas (Hummon, 1986, pg 35). It is essential
Before the 1950s, sports researchers made important anthropological contributions. They wrote about sport among small scale societies, and pre-literate people. During this period, there were few occasions that articles on sport appeared in anthropology journals (Blanchard 1995; Chandler et al 2007). Early researchers in the field like Stewart Culin in1907 (also referred to as the “game scholar… in the field of anthropology,”) published his work titled Games of the North American Indians, in the the Bereau of American Ethnology. His work was published by Government Printing Office in Washinton D.C. (Dyck 2004). Karl Wuele in 1925 (a German scholar who did an ethnologic study of the origin and development of sports) had his work published in the Oceania journal (Coakley and Dunning 2002:146; Blanchard 1995:14). Other published works include Raymond Firth’s (1931) study of A Dart Match in Tikopia, his work was published in the Oceania (Dyck 2004). Lesser’s (1933) work