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... gods and replaced them , he had to give freely just as the gods had done . Primitive life was openly immersed in debt , in obligation to the invisible powers , the ancestors , the dead souls ; the group lived partly by drawing its ...
... gods and replaced them , he had to give freely just as the gods had done . Primitive life was openly immersed in debt , in obligation to the invisible powers , the ancestors , the dead souls ; the group lived partly by drawing its ...
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... gods of their kinsmen . We can see what this did for a person : it gave him a contest in which he could be victorious if his offerings of surplus exceeded those of the other clan . In a word , it gave him cosmic heroism , the ...
... gods of their kinsmen . We can see what this did for a person : it gave him a contest in which he could be victorious if his offerings of surplus exceeded those of the other clan . In a word , it gave him cosmic heroism , the ...
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... gods favor you . The whole philosophy is summed up in the lines from a typical " western " movie , when the Indians come upon a cavalry officer and the leader says , " Let's see if his gods protect him - shoot ! " The point we moderns ...
... gods favor you . The whole philosophy is summed up in the lines from a typical " western " movie , when the Indians come upon a cavalry officer and the leader says , " Let's see if his gods protect him - shoot ! " The point we moderns ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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