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... society departed from the ancient taboos against murder , theft , and rape that we are now faced with juvenile ... society now known - for lack of any effective taboos . If Western man could establish an inviolate taboo against random ...
... society departed from the ancient taboos against murder , theft , and rape that we are now faced with juvenile ... society now known - for lack of any effective taboos . If Western man could establish an inviolate taboo against random ...
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... society , or by assimilating institutions filtering down from the higher civilizations . Out of the early neolithic complex a different kind of social organiza- tion arose : no longer dispersed in small units , but unified in a large ...
... society , or by assimilating institutions filtering down from the higher civilizations . Out of the early neolithic complex a different kind of social organiza- tion arose : no longer dispersed in small units , but unified in a large ...
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... societies . ' How Human Society Operates . See Shapiro , Harry L. ( editor ) . Thinker and Intellectual in Primitive Society . See Diamond , Stanley ( editor ) . Révész , G. The Origins and Prehistory of Language . New York : 1956 . The ...
... societies . ' How Human Society Operates . See Shapiro , Harry L. ( editor ) . Thinker and Intellectual in Primitive Society . See Diamond , Stanley ( editor ) . Révész , G. The Origins and Prehistory of Language . New York : 1956 . The ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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