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Primitive peoples excel at conversation and delight in it; and among peasant
populations, as in Ireland, it still ranks high as the social occupation. 5: MYTH AS
'LINGUISTIC DISEASE' This generalized description of the origins of language
has ...
Primitive peoples excel at conversation and delight in it; and among peasant
populations, as in Ireland, it still ranks high as the social occupation. 5: MYTH AS
'LINGUISTIC DISEASE' This generalized description of the origins of language
has ...
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But those who would use language to deal with cosmic processes, organic
functions, and human relations, as operative interacting wholes, must realize that
they can only be represented loosely in the language of myth: in their dynamic ...
But those who would use language to deal with cosmic processes, organic
functions, and human relations, as operative interacting wholes, must realize that
they can only be represented loosely in the language of myth: in their dynamic ...
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Murray, Henry A. (editor). Myth and Myth Making: A Symposium. In Daedalus:
Spring 1959. An enquiry into the function and meaning of myth, by a group
brought together bj one of the foremost interpreters of personality and culture. Yet
none of ...
Murray, Henry A. (editor). Myth and Myth Making: A Symposium. In Daedalus:
Spring 1959. An enquiry into the function and meaning of myth, by a group
brought together bj one of the foremost interpreters of personality and culture. Yet
none of ...
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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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