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... social island cut off from other groups . Wherever this village culture was left to itself , it eventually became fos- silized ; and if later it continued to develop , it was either by being coerced into association with a larger ...
... social island cut off from other groups . Wherever this village culture was left to itself , it eventually became fos- silized ; and if later it continued to develop , it was either by being coerced into association with a larger ...
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... Social Change . Oxford : 1962 . Acute analysis of medieval inventions in commanding power and improving agriculture as related to their social accompaniments and results . Whitehead , Alfred North . Symbolism : Its Meaning and Effect ...
... Social Change . Oxford : 1962 . Acute analysis of medieval inventions in commanding power and improving agriculture as related to their social accompaniments and results . Whitehead , Alfred North . Symbolism : Its Meaning and Effect ...
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... Social cement , ritual as , 77 Social organization , 14 , 23 ; authoritarian , 164 ; Pharaonic , 196 Social solidarity , contribu- tion of ritual to , 63 Society , hierarchic struc- ture of , 164 Socrates , 259 Sodom , 204 Solar ...
... Social cement , ritual as , 77 Social organization , 14 , 23 ; authoritarian , 164 ; Pharaonic , 196 Social solidarity , contribu- tion of ritual to , 63 Society , hierarchic struc- ture of , 164 Socrates , 259 Sodom , 204 Solar ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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