Competition concerning a brief history of humanity
On the occasion of summer holidays the A.A.G.
announces a competition for a concise and comprehensible history of humanity.
With this contention it is hoped to achieve a condensed overall picture of the
basic moments of humans history, in order to attain an approach of mutual
understanding and respect, as essential conditions for longer-range and more
prosperous survival of our species.
As long as
we know such an effort has not been promoted yet and we consider that as a
background tool in modern education’s “equipment” is absent. The result of a
relevant written text will be useful for experts (as it will offer
possibilities for contribution), and for less specialised too, who, in their
overwhelming majority, feel the need of a dialogic supervisory briefing
regarding various subjects, as that of the present rivalry.
Terms: The attendances
deadline is fixed for the end of the year, the corresponding text should not
exceed 3 pages or 1803 words, and must be sent to our e-mail. Languages: Hellenic
or English.
Reward: One of
our editions with special dedication to the six more successful attendances,
jugged by the A.A.G. Board.
Note: A definition
of culture from one of our university publications
is collocated, which eventually may be useful for an easier approach to the
subject in contention: As culture is comprehended the sum of human biosocial
adaptation to the environment and includes ideas, notions and behaviours,
along with the material consequences - results of this adaptation.
There is also a concentrating sentence of PhD in Anthropology Demosthenes Kourtovik (one of the senior A.A.G. members), who in 2000 within a critical and humoristic Greek text regarding Anthropology etc formulated: “The entire history of humanity is the nostalgia of its prehistory”, connecting this saying to the opinion of Rousseau that the prehistoric human patrimony is more noble of its current civilization.