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... activities that directly sustain him , but in the symbolic activities which give sig- nificance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations . THE CONDITION OF MAN ( 1944 ) The last century , we all ...
... activities that directly sustain him , but in the symbolic activities which give sig- nificance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations . THE CONDITION OF MAN ( 1944 ) The last century , we all ...
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... activities . As long as the paleoanthropologist regarded material objects - mainly bones and stones as the only scientifically admissible evidence of early man's activities , nothing could be done to alter this stereotype . I shall find ...
... activities . As long as the paleoanthropologist regarded material objects - mainly bones and stones as the only scientifically admissible evidence of early man's activities , nothing could be done to alter this stereotype . I shall find ...
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... activities of identifying edible plants or inimical animals . Once achieved in pantomime and dance , some of this meaning would pass over to the spontaneous cries that accompanied the common action ; and they in turn would take more ...
... activities of identifying edible plants or inimical animals . Once achieved in pantomime and dance , some of this meaning would pass over to the spontaneous cries that accompanied the common action ; and they in turn would take more ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human culture human development hunter hunting images institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York