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Students of anthropology and comparative religion had long been aware that there was, indeed, a direct connection.
Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī in the eleventh century, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent.
The book was highly influential in introducing comparative studies ( in this case France and England ), as well as long durations (" longue durée ") studies spanning several centuries, even up to a thousand years, downplaying short-term events.
Abbas was an intelligent prince, possessed some literary taste, and is noteworthy on account of the comparative simplicity of his life.
This theory of Homer's influence on Beowulf remained very prevalent in the 1920s, but started to die out in the following decade when a handful of critics stated that the two works were merely comparative literature ” although Greek was known in contemporary England.
John Miles Foley held, specifically with reference to the Beowulf debate, that while comparative work was both necessary and valid, it must be conducted with a view to the particularities of a given tradition ; Foley argued with a view to developments of oral traditional theory that do not assume, or depend upon, finally unverifiable assumptions about composition, and that discard the oral / literate dichotomy focused on composition in favor of a more fluid continuum of traditionality and textuality.
) The FCC ordered comparative hearings, and in 1969 a competing applicant, Boston Broadcasters, Inc. was granted a construction permit to replace WHDH-TV on channel 5.
His most notable work was developing comparative grammar studies of the Bantu languages, building on the pioneering work of Wilhelm Bleek.
The notion of legal transplants was coined by Alan Watson, one of the world's renowned legal scholars specializing in comparative law.
Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.
The comparative method was developed over the 19th century.
The English word Dravidian was first employed by Robert Caldwell in his book of comparative Dravidian grammar based on the usage of the Sanskrit word in the work Tantravārttika by ( Zvelebil 1990 p. xx ).
In 1988 he returned to Bloomington as " College of Arts and Sciences Professor " in both cognitive science and computer science, and also was appointed adjunct professor of history and philosophy of science, philosophy, comparative literature, and psychology, but he states that his involvement with most of these departments is nominal.
Sapir was the first to prove that the methods of comparative linguistics were equally valid when applied to indigenous languages.
In the 1929 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica he published what was then the most authoritative classification of Native American languages, and the first based on evidence from modern comparative linguistics.
In addition, for most of the twentieth century, comparative psychology developed most strongly in North America, while ethology was stronger in Europe.
Haeckel was a zoologist, artist, writer, and later in life a professor of comparative anatomy.
Haeckel was a zoologist, an accomplished artist and illustrator, and later a professor of comparative anatomy.
Rutimeyer was a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Basel, who rejected natural selection as simply mechanistic and proposed an anti-materialist view of nature.
Franz Bopp ( September 14, 1791, Mainz – October 23, 1867, Berlin ) was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages.
In grateful recognition of that fact, on the fiftieth anniversary ( May 16, 1866 ) of the date of Windischmann's preface to that work, a fund called Die Bopp-Stiftung, for the promotion of the study of Sanskrit and comparative grammar, was established at Berlin, to which liberal contributions were made by his numerous pupils and admirers in all parts of the globe.
Martineau also wrote: Bopp's Sanskrit studies and Sanskrit publications are the solid foundations upon which his system of comparative grammar was erected, and without which that could not have been perfect.
President Vincent took advantage of the comparative national stability, which was being maintained by a professionalized military, to gain absolute power.

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Westermann's comparative work, begun in 1911, initially brought together much of today's Niger – Congo and Nilo-Saharan language phyla under the name Sudanic languages.
Ethologists have made much more use of a truly comparative method than comparative psychologists have.
The dominance of the Christian Democratic party during much of the postwar period lent continuity and comparative stability to Italy's political situation, mainly dominated by the attempt of keeping the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) out of power, to maintain Cold War equilibrium in the region.
Recent research suggests that much of his prophetic work paraphrases collections of ancient end-of-the-world prophecies ( mainly Bible-based ), supplemented with references to historical events and anthologies of omen reports, and then projects those into the future in part with the aid of comparative horoscopy.
The group is much in need of comparative anatomical study, especially in light of the recent expansion of the family Peridiscaceae to include Medusandra, a genus that before 2009, had usually not been placed in Saxifragales.
But the rise of Indo-European comparative linguistics absorbed so much attention and enthusiasm that Uralic linguistics was all but eclipsed in Europe ; in Hungary, the only European country that would have had a vested interest in the family ( Finland and Estonia being under Russian rule ), the political climate was too hostile for the development of Uralic comparative linguistics.
Whereas more and most are the comparative and superlative of both much and many, few and little have differing comparative and superlative ( fewer, fewest and less, least ).
( On the other hand " fewer " is reserved for count and " less " for mass ( see Fewer vs. less ), but " more " is the proper comparative for both " many " and " much ".
At Harvard, Yerkes became interested in animal behavior, so much so that he put off further medical training to study comparative psychology.
Anthony Trollope suffered much misery in his boyhood owing to the disparity between his family's social background and his own comparative poverty.
Hornbostel did much work in the field of ethnomusicology, then usually referred to as comparative musicology.
Gesenius takes much of the credit for having freed Semitic philology from the trammels of theological and religious prepossession, and for inaugurating the strictly scientific ( and comparative ) method which has since been so fruitful.
The comparative rarity of the Maklouf-effigy coins (" the ones with the necklace ") has led to an urban myth that they are much more valuable than the other coins, but this is not true – there are over 13 million 1997-dated £ 2 coins in circulation.
:* Arnold J. Toynbee: Toynbee wrote a similar comparative study of the rise and decline of civilizations, A Study of History, somewhat concurrently with Spengler, which was released much later, around the conclusion of World War II.
Yet while he was oriented towards the West and the new allies of West Germany and paid little attention to comparatists in Eastern Europe, his conception of a transnational ( and transatlantic ) comparative literature was very much influenced by East European literary theorists of the Russian and Prague schools of structuralism, from whose works René Wellek, too, derived many of his concepts, concepts that continue to have profound implications for comparative literary theory today " ... A manual published by the University of Munich lists 31 departments which offer a diploma in comparative literature in Germany, albeit some only as a ' minor '.
Recently and roughly in temporal order below, much longer-term comparative historical studies of environmental degradation are found by sociologists.
Includes much comparative data on elections and electoral systems
There were several reasons for this comparative lack of success-the terrain here was much more heavily forested and thus favoured the defender, German units in this area had had time to prepare comprehensive fortifications and the German leadership had been good, while Soviet leadership had been uninspired.

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