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... sacred fire , ritual songs , and ceremonies which belong to it alone . It is easy enough for us to talk about a household that has its own cult and sacred fire , but can we imagine what it means to step into a hut that has a sacred fire ...
... sacred fire , ritual songs , and ceremonies which belong to it alone . It is easy enough for us to talk about a household that has its own cult and sacred fire , but can we imagine what it means to step into a hut that has a sacred fire ...
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... sacred , we can now understand - with Simmel and Hocart - how it was that the first banks were temples and the first ones to issue money were the priests . With the ascendancy of priestcraft it became the priests themselves who ...
... sacred , we can now understand - with Simmel and Hocart - how it was that the first banks were temples and the first ones to issue money were the priests . With the ascendancy of priestcraft it became the priests themselves who ...
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... sacred as all cultural things are sacred . As Rank taught us and as Brown so powerfully reaffirmed , “ Custom is . . . essentially sacred " —and why should money be any excep- tion ? 18 The thing that connects money with the domain of the ...
... sacred as all cultural things are sacred . As Rank taught us and as Brown so powerfully reaffirmed , “ Custom is . . . essentially sacred " —and why should money be any excep- tion ? 18 The thing that connects money with the domain of the ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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