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Sexual intercourse, the earliest mode of social communion and cooperation, was
now directed and enriched by mind. Since representations of the male phallus
are sometimes found in the same cave as female forms with open vulvas — an ...
Sexual intercourse, the earliest mode of social communion and cooperation, was
now directed and enriched by mind. Since representations of the male phallus
are sometimes found in the same cave as female forms with open vulvas — an ...
Page 147
In reconstructing the process of domestication, we would do well to treat the
increased consciousness of sexuality, an essentially religious consciousness, as
the dominating motive power in this whole change: from later data we may
plausibly ...
In reconstructing the process of domestication, we would do well to treat the
increased consciousness of sexuality, an essentially religious consciousness, as
the dominating motive power in this whole change: from later data we may
plausibly ...
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... paleolithic woman's, 121; woman's, 148 Sexual activity, encouragement to, 122
Sexual characteristics, woman's special, 147 Sexual intercourse, enrichment of,
122 Sexual symbolism, paleolithic, 20 Sexuality, neolithic, 160 Shaker colonies, ...
... paleolithic woman's, 121; woman's, 148 Sexual activity, encouragement to, 122
Sexual characteristics, woman's special, 147 Sexual intercourse, enrichment of,
122 Sexual symbolism, paleolithic, 20 Sexuality, neolithic, 160 Shaker colonies, ...
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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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