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... interpretation than those they have avoided . The result has been a single - factor explanation of man's original devel- opment centered around the stone tool : an oversimplification in method that has now been abandoned elsewhere as ...
... interpretation than those they have avoided . The result has been a single - factor explanation of man's original devel- opment centered around the stone tool : an oversimplification in method that has now been abandoned elsewhere as ...
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... interpretation of Leonardo's ominous prophecies ; nor was Leonardo himself alone , as Sir Kenneth Clark has pointed out . Clark sees in Leonardo's drawings of deluges a foreboding of cosmic disas- ter , which he connects with other ...
... interpretation of Leonardo's ominous prophecies ; nor was Leonardo himself alone , as Sir Kenneth Clark has pointed out . Clark sees in Leonardo's drawings of deluges a foreboding of cosmic disas- ter , which he connects with other ...
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... interpretation of ceremony , myth , and song among the Australian aborigines ; but vitiated by its acceptance of Freud's uncritical mythology of early man , in which an imaginary event is called upon to sustain a fantastic hypothesis ...
... interpretation of ceremony , myth , and song among the Australian aborigines ; but vitiated by its acceptance of Freud's uncritical mythology of early man , in which an imaginary event is called upon to sustain a fantastic hypothesis ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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