Banks are generally considered to be utilities that allow for the transmission of value on a daily basis in modern society, but they also seem to create devastating events like credit crises by the manufacture of credit. How this power originated in human society is of interest. Most animals produce some degree of savings, either in caching from one season to the next or for later in one season. Often these savings are an intergenerational transfer for the initial survival of young as in some wasps, or in a later use by the same individual who produces the savings either in the same year or...
Banks are generally considered to be utilities that allow for the transmission of value on a daily basis in modern society, but they also seem to crea...
The history of anthropology is intimately tied to the discovery of what it means to be human. From the time of the Sumerians and Early Egyptians that nature of being human was a significant question investigated by the great thinkers of world cultures like Pythagoras, Buddha, Zoroaster and Confucius among many others. The Chinese voyages of discovery of Chang Ho and the European voyages of the 15th century renewed this inquiry, but for for the West the temptation of conquest and colonialism created ideas of essential difference that lead to modern racism. The process to examine this racist...
The history of anthropology is intimately tied to the discovery of what it means to be human. From the time of the Sumerians and Early Egyptians that ...
