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... from Callius of Rhodes to Callimachus in Athens, he who was skilled in making
great bronze castings, as if to establish his own place among his ancient peers.
With a sense of history later engineers lost, he ransacked the annals of antiquity ...
... from Callius of Rhodes to Callimachus in Athens, he who was skilled in making
great bronze castings, as if to establish his own place among his ancient peers.
With a sense of history later engineers lost, he ransacked the annals of antiquity ...
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Myth, Ritual, and Kingship: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Kingship in the
Ancient Near East and in Israel. Oxford: 1958. Useful as counterpoise to
Frankfort's overemphasis of differences between ancient cultures and his neglect
of ...
Myth, Ritual, and Kingship: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Kingship in the
Ancient Near East and in Israel. Oxford: 1958. Useful as counterpoise to
Frankfort's overemphasis of differences between ancient cultures and his neglect
of ...
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A teasing book which, by its over-extension, promises more than it can perform,
yet is full of rare flashes of insight. See Jane Harrison's Ancient Art and Ritual.
See also Caillois' Man and the Sacred for criticism. Humboldt, Alexander von.
A teasing book which, by its over-extension, promises more than it can perform,
yet is full of rare flashes of insight. See Jane Harrison's Ancient Art and Ritual.
See also Caillois' Man and the Sacred for criticism. Humboldt, Alexander von.
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian Australopithecines became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation divine 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 development hunter hunting Ice Age images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king kingship labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic neolithic culture Oakes Ames observation once organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible potter's wheel practice primitive production rational ritual royal sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York
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| Title | The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development Volume 1 of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Myth of the Machine; Technics and Human Development, Lewis Mumford |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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