…man. Man learns from his environment. Hunting man imitates animals. Plant man imitates plants in his culture. These are what Frobenius calls the paidoima, the guiding pedagogues of man. First animal, plant. Now in all foraging societies, the men tend to…

…seem like constellations. Now let me tell you the little myth and rite that has been observed which interprets these. It was Frobenius in Africa One of the greatest Africa Anthropologists the world has known. He died just about the time the second world…

…meat. Their party had been joined by three pygmies. Now the pygmies are vestigial hunting people and they are great hunters. So Frobenius said to these three tiny little people: would you go get us a gazelle or something like that for our larder we…

…They said: well we have to perform a rite first and we can't bring you anything until tomorrow. Well the party was going on Frobenius remained behind hidden to watch what the rite was. This was his business and he was going to find out about it. What…

…then they went out and hunted and brought back a gazelle which had been shot in the neck just that way and then they asked Frobenius for a cup of the blood of the gazelle and some of the fur. Next Morning they're up there. On that hill again and at…

…fact that if the cultural material is made of perishable material it's almost impossible for the anthropologist to document it. Frobenius, this Africa Anthropologist of whom I have already spoken, used the term the invisible counter player to represent the…

…and you get a wonderful abstraction and virtuosity of transformations. This whole culture world of the tropics is yet to be explored. Frobenius I'm going to continue to talk about him a little bit speaks of two great pendulations of culture. One which he…

…ago that the University of Hawaii has sent a team to Northern Thailand to excavate and they have begun to find evidence that Frobenius anticipated as early as 1898, namely of the very early planting here. Then there's a man who used to be at the…

…And then there was another author who thought of civilization and culture in terms of morphological processes, and this was Frobenius, whose name is anathema among our American Anthropological society people. His concept was of three great total stages in the…

…how tiny the mesopotamian, how tiny the Indian the Chinese, the European, in comparison with this global world that we're in now, Frobenius had the idea that we were in the beginning of another great and perhaps final phase that would last for thousands…