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digging through the buried strata, may become visible. The generalist's
competence lies not in unearthing new evidence but in putting together authentic
fragments that are accidentally, or sometimes arbitrarily, separated, because
specialists ...
digging through the buried strata, may become visible. The generalist's
competence lies not in unearthing new evidence but in putting together authentic
fragments that are accidentally, or sometimes arbitrarily, separated, because
specialists ...
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We know, from later evidence, that primitive hunting peoples feel guilty about
taking the life of animals they need for food, and even pray the animal for
forgiveness or rationalize its death as due to the animal's own wish. Is it so sure
then that ...
We know, from later evidence, that primitive hunting peoples feel guilty about
taking the life of animals they need for food, and even pray the animal for
forgiveness or rationalize its death as due to the animal's own wish. Is it so sure
then that ...
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evidence that makes the pat identification of man with tools highly questionable,
for by then many other parts of human culture were extremely well- developed
while his tools were still crude. At the time the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians
...
evidence that makes the pat identification of man with tools highly questionable,
for by then many other parts of human culture were extremely well- developed
while his tools were still crude. At the time the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians
...
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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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