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The Golden Bough
Anthropology
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It first was published in two volumes in 1890; the third edition, published 1906–15, comprised…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
The CRM definition of a period
Definition is the most important information category. It is about defining every notion of period in a specialized way. Cultural period is a multidimensional concept about complex interrelations between cultural phenomena. The CIDOC CRM defines the basic notion of a period…
Events are not causal to the identity of a period
Some events are closely related to the definition of a period. We mark them as starting event or terminating event. A frequent intuition is that some kind of distinct event should be responsible for the upcoming of a new cultural phase (as required by Biers 1992). The…