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... activities that directly sustain him , but in the symbolic activities which give sig- nificance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations . THE CONDITION OF MAN ( 1944 ) The last century , we all ...
... activities that directly sustain him , but in the symbolic activities which give sig- nificance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations . THE CONDITION OF MAN ( 1944 ) The last century , we all ...
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... activities . As long as the paleoanthropologist regarded material objects - mainly bones and stones - as the only scientifically admissible evidence of early man's activities , nothing could be done to alter this stereotype . I shall ...
... activities . As long as the paleoanthropologist regarded material objects - mainly bones and stones - as the only scientifically admissible evidence of early man's activities , nothing could be done to alter this stereotype . I shall ...
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... activities a higher mode of being than the whole earth af- forded before life appeared . When we view organic change , not as mere motion , but as the increase of sentience and self - directed activity , as the lengthening of memory ...
... activities a higher mode of being than the whole earth af- forded before life appeared . When we view organic change , not as mere motion , but as the increase of sentience and self - directed activity , as the lengthening of memory ...
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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 became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation 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 images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York