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The Kurgan Origins The Kurgan peoples received their name from archeologists who defined and identified them by the type of burial mounds found in their cultures. These mounds were called ÎkurgsÌ. The reason why they play an important role in the history of the dance (and in the inner wisdom experienced within and carried through the dance) is because they were the first cultures identified as being fundamentally, per se, patriarchal. By this we mean that they were patrifocal, that they identified the primary as being male deity and that there was a certain type of hierarchy present. There also appears to have been more individuation in these cultures than in the matriarchal and matrifocal societies of the lands they swept into and inhabited. As they swept into and replace the older Neolithic cultures, much of the art and ways of direst knowledge was either lost or altered greatly. It is probably true that we can also call these people the original Indo - Europeans.
untitled nterestingly, we must go to Russia to begin the story of where the Celts came from. There is in Russia today, just east of the Ural Mountains on the Tobol River a town and an Oblast (Russian for province) known as Kurgan. The town and the term is Russian for tumulus, the distinctive mound-grave of the nomadic culture to whom the name Kurgan was given. The Kurgans were a pre-Celtic peoples from whom the Celts evolved. The Kurgans came from the steppes of Russia and mixed with the people who were just north of the Black Sea, the North Pontic Culture, and formed a new culture. A larger view of the TransCaucuses, the cradle of the Indo-European languages as it is today. The people who moved in the Black Sea area when the early Kurgans moved on, where Cimmerians. The Scythians were either a pre-Celtic peoples or a people who greatly influenced the Celts. The particular tribe of Scythians we are interested in is the Massagetae. They were nomads who lived in tents. Go to next section The Greeks
Home | LearnEnglishTeens Emergence of Civilization and Fall into Patriarchal Dominion Christine Fielder & Chris King Paleolithic Origins There are two sexually polarized theories of human cultural origins, both of which have failed to stand the test of empirical evidence. The first is 'man the hunter' (Washburn R729, Morris R486) suggesting that male strength and hunting prowess led both to male dominance, and intelligence and culture, through skills of hunting, such as tool-making. Dolni Vestonice in Czechoslovakia is a site of an encampment of mammoth hunters dating from about 30,000 years ago. The remains include a burial site apparently honouring people of both sexes ( a 'menage-a-trois' with a central female, apparently bonded to the right-hand male, red ochre between the female's thighs and a disconcerting 'spike' driven into the left 'male's' crotch) and a hearth site with a 'venus' figurine baked clay animal figures, tools, jewelry, and a carved head of a woman whose arthritic disfigurement appears to match a skeleton at the site.
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John McWhorter | Speaker Linguist John McWhorter thinks about language in relation to race, politics and our shared cultural history. Why you should listen John McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, teaching linguistics, Western Civilization and music history. He is a regular columnist on language matters and race issues for Time and CNN, writes for the Wall Street Journal "Taste" page, and writes a regular column on language for The Atlantic. His work also appears in the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Aeon magazine, The American Interest and other outlets. McWhorter earned his PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and is the author of The Power of Babel, Doing Our Own Thing, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, The Language Hoax and most recently Words on the Move and Talking Back, Talking Black. Beyond his work in linguistics, McWhorter is the author of Losing the Race and other books on race. What others say
... SFG Page ... Introduction Systemic linguistics (or systemics) is a theory of language centred on the notion of language function. In contrast with the structural approaches to language description, systemics places the functions of language as primary, as a "fundamental property of language itself" (Halliday & Hasan 1985: 17), seeking to understand what it is that language does and how it accomplishes it. More generally, systemics looks at how language acts upon and is constrained by the social context in which it functions. Systemics grew out of the work of J.R. Beam me up, Scottie! Scale & category linguistics The most comprehensive account of Halliday's early thoughts on linguistic theorising can be found in Halliday (1961). The unit category, as introduced in an earlier paper by Halliday (1956: 36), is "that category to which corresponds a segment of the linguistic material about which statements are to be made." Did the team win? Towards systemics Figure: Mood system in English Systemics