Explorations: War and Peace: Agriculture: Nepal: Use of the sickle
Duration: 4 mins 18 secs
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Alan Macfarlane discusses the way in which tools are the extensions of the human body, illustrating the argument with the multi-purpose Nepalese sickle |
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| Created: | 2018-03-11 09:30 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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