Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 01.01.2007 - 288 Seiten It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. |
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... god Ra to disclose his name, and since knowledge of a person's name15 gave to him who possessed it magical power over the person himself she acquired power over Ra and other gods. In the twelfth dynasty Osiris became the soul of Ra, the ...
... god Ra to disclose his name, and since knowledge of a person's name15 gave to him who possessed it magical power over the person himself she acquired power over Ra and other gods. In the twelfth dynasty Osiris became the soul of Ra, the ...
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... gods. Magical literature and popular tales preserved the traditions of the great gods of the universe. The king gained from the revolution as the incarnation of the king gods, Falcon, Horus-Seth, Ra, Ra-Harakhti, Osiris, Horus, son of ...
... gods. Magical literature and popular tales preserved the traditions of the great gods of the universe. The king gained from the revolution as the incarnation of the king gods, Falcon, Horus-Seth, Ra, Ra-Harakhti, Osiris, Horus, son of ...
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... gods were “solarized,” and Amon the God of the Theban family as AmonRa reigned over all the gods of Egypt after 1600 BC.As a result of the success of war in imperial expansion, the priests became securely established in territorial ...
... gods were “solarized,” and Amon the God of the Theban family as AmonRa reigned over all the gods of Egypt after 1600 BC.As a result of the success of war in imperial expansion, the priests became securely established in territorial ...
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... gods as a means of uniting groups into a nation was supplemented by union through marriage. Under Amenophis iii the ... God, attempted to introduce a sys- tem of worship which would provide a religious basis for imperial development. The ...
... gods as a means of uniting groups into a nation was supplemented by union through marriage. Under Amenophis iii the ... God, attempted to introduce a sys- tem of worship which would provide a religious basis for imperial development. The ...
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... gods intervened more and more in private affairs. Royal authority and lay justice were weakened by the influence of the priests and the popularity of the gods.After Rameses ii (1300–1234 BC) the first prophet of Amon became the highest ...
... gods intervened more and more in private affairs. Royal authority and lay justice were weakened by the influence of the priests and the popularity of the gods.After Rameses ii (1300–1234 BC) the first prophet of Amon became the highest ...
Inhalt
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
Index | 274 |
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