Sentences with phrase «think cultural historians»

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Historians and anthropologists have made us aware of the historical and cultural conditioning of our thought.

Thus the philologist would ascertain the meaning of a passage of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it from a folkloristic point of view.

Historian and cultural critic Christopher Lasch occupied a peculiar niche in contemporary social thought.

Fifty years from now, cultural historians trying to understand the twilight years of the gas - guzzling SUV will ask themselves a series of questions: What were auto companies thinking when they created enormous cars with enormous engines that were destined for a life of traffic jams?

The work of 22 authors, ranging from physicists, epidemiologists and ecologists to cultural historians, the paper aims to push beyond the «fire community» to present landscape fire into a central position in the earth sciences — «it demands that we think about its history.»