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... picture today , culturally naked and therefore highly defenseless against internal assaults . Until he had laid down ... world . Unfortunately this rational picture does not correspond to either the surviving evidence or the necessary ...
... picture today , culturally naked and therefore highly defenseless against internal assaults . Until he had laid down ... world . Unfortunately this rational picture does not correspond to either the surviving evidence or the necessary ...
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... World . In Euphytica . Wageningen : November 1965 . Rounds out , in terms of the New World , the picture presented in Agricultural Origins . Sayce , R. U. Primitive Arts and Crafts : An Introduction to the Study of Material Culture ...
... World . In Euphytica . Wageningen : November 1965 . Rounds out , in terms of the New World , the picture presented in Agricultural Origins . Sayce , R. U. Primitive Arts and Crafts : An Introduction to the Study of Material Culture ...
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... World picture , mechanical , 289 Writing , invention of , 192 Xanthodides , Stephanos , 22 Xosa irrationality , 56 Yahgans , 79 Yam , 130 ; wide distribu- tion of , 133 Year , as human artifact , 33 Yeats , William Butler , 23 Yoshinobu ...
... World picture , mechanical , 289 Writing , invention of , 192 Xanthodides , Stephanos , 22 Xosa irrationality , 56 Yahgans , 79 Yam , 130 ; wide distribu- tion of , 133 Year , as human artifact , 33 Yeats , William Butler , 23 Yoshinobu ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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