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... primitive , scholars believe , than the Australian natives , who should have been preserved , so to say , under glass , for the benefit of later anthropologists . So commonplace were these prac- tices , so plainly were the aborigines ...
... primitive , scholars believe , than the Australian natives , who should have been preserved , so to say , under glass , for the benefit of later anthropologists . So commonplace were these prac- tices , so plainly were the aborigines ...
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... primitive societies , it would remain huge if only a single contribution were taken into account : that made by the obscure tribe of Amazon Indians who had learned the uses of their native rubber plant and had produced , before the ...
... primitive societies , it would remain huge if only a single contribution were taken into account : that made by the obscure tribe of Amazon Indians who had learned the uses of their native rubber plant and had produced , before the ...
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... primitive communities . In many areas , before neolithic horticulture and agriculture came under a coercive centralization that imposed taxes and forced labor , a modest level of plenitude had in fact been achieved without insistent ...
... primitive communities . In many areas , before neolithic horticulture and agriculture came under a coercive centralization that imposed taxes and forced labor , a modest level of plenitude had in fact been achieved without insistent ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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