He then goes on to compare the extinction of big game in Australia and New Guinea to that in the Americas, then talks about early tools. ... This is what Diamond calls a natural experiment in history. ... The Eurasian societies were able to master food production at a faster pace than the societies of Africa and Australia. ... says is essential in comparing history. ... Raymond Grew, author ofThe Case for Comparing Histories,? ...

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By creating a contrast between the values and attitudes of this dominant society of the particular time in history - and Ellen's dependence upon it for structure and stability - and settings within the text which contain societies who do not conform with such social restraints, the novel creates an even greater contrast between Ellen's response to her comfortable environment, and that to each of the uncomfortable environments she is positioned to encounter during her journey. When Ellen has been shipwrecked ashore the Australian mainland, she is faced with a society of people who exh...

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The social function of mythology therefore is relative to many periods in history. ... Australian writer Richard Neville has identified Xena as "just a big, brassy, pseudo-Greek legend waylaying everything in her path, especially men". ...

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Tom Nairn stated that ""Nationalism" is the pathology of modern developmental history, as inescapable as "neurosis" in the individual, with much the same essential ambiguity attaching to it, a similar built-in capacity for descent into dementia, rooted in the dilemmas of helplessness thrust upon most of the world and largely incurable." ... Australia: Longman. ...

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Van Gennep had wrote his work on Australian totemism six years before Durkheim completed his own work, Van Gennep viewed the "totem" differed from Durkheim'. ... Van Gennep stipulated that these were critical for human social institutions, as necessary for human survival, he argued that humans form groups in order to survive, and thus that groups have a special place in the history of evolution. ...

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Marx analysed religious rhetoric: The social principles of Christianity preach the necessity of a ruling and an oppressed class, [...] declare all vile acts of the oppressors against the oppressed to be either the just punishment of original sin and other sins or trials that the Lord in his infinite wisdom imposes on those redeemed. [...] preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, dejection. (142-3)* Thus his conclusion that "religion's role in history has been to offer a divine justification for the status quo" (142)*. ...

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