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Page 103
Did Magdalenian hunters already follow the Bushmen's practice of cunningly
tipping their arrows with stronger or weaker poisons, derived from the amaryllis,
the scorpion, the spider, or the snake, according to the size and vitality of the ...
Did Magdalenian hunters already follow the Bushmen's practice of cunningly
tipping their arrows with stronger or weaker poisons, derived from the amaryllis,
the scorpion, the spider, or the snake, according to the size and vitality of the ...
Page 110
On the surface, most of these efforts seem to come under the head of 'brotlose
Kiinste,' as my grandmother used to call such unrewarding practices. But they are
not without resemblance to the displays of 'idle curiosity' that Thorstein Veblen ...
On the surface, most of these efforts seem to come under the head of 'brotlose
Kiinste,' as my grandmother used to call such unrewarding practices. But they are
not without resemblance to the displays of 'idle curiosity' that Thorstein Veblen ...
Page 185
If we may judge from the practice of the Cheyenne Indians, this may have been a
paleolithic hunting trait; for one of the three punishable crimes among them was
disobedience to the leader's orders on the buffalo hunt. Woolley cites a Hittite ...
If we may judge from the practice of the Cheyenne Indians, this may have been a
paleolithic hunting trait; for one of the three punishable crimes among them was
disobedience to the leader's orders on the buffalo hunt. Woolley cites a Hittite ...
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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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