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Page 155
... effect of animal domestication was to restore the balance of the sexes , even before patriarchal pastoral specialization set in . Carl Sauer sums it up neatly : " Cattle , cart , plow , broadcasting , and drilling , all began as ...
... effect of animal domestication was to restore the balance of the sexes , even before patriarchal pastoral specialization set in . Carl Sauer sums it up neatly : " Cattle , cart , plow , broadcasting , and drilling , all began as ...
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... effect , a way of deliberately bringing the megamachine periodically to a standstill by cutting off its manpower . Once a week the small , intimate basic unit , the family and the Synagogue , took over ; reasserting , in effect , the ...
... effect , a way of deliberately bringing the megamachine periodically to a standstill by cutting off its manpower . Once a week the small , intimate basic unit , the family and the Synagogue , took over ; reasserting , in effect , the ...
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... effect of , 67 Habitat , food - collector's knowledge of , 104 Habitation , year - round , 132 Haçilar , 172 Hahn , Eduard , 130 , 133 , 151 , 152 Haifa , 251 Hair - dressing , 109 , 111 Hallowell , A. I. , 53 Hamanu , [ 19 ] Hamlet ...
... effect of , 67 Habitat , food - collector's knowledge of , 104 Habitation , year - round , 132 Haçilar , 172 Hahn , Eduard , 130 , 133 , 151 , 152 Haifa , 251 Hair - dressing , 109 , 111 Hallowell , A. I. , 53 Hamanu , [ 19 ] Hamlet ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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