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... primitive world . We started with the statement that primitive man used the dual organization to affirm his organismic self - feeling , and one of his principal means was the setting up of society in the form of organized rivalry . Now ...
... primitive world . We started with the statement that primitive man used the dual organization to affirm his organismic self - feeling , and one of his principal means was the setting up of society in the form of organized rivalry . Now ...
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... primitive life was superior to our own . Lévi - Strauss himself has taken a stand in favor of the primitive.24 I don't want to go into the pros and cons of it and the many subtle and valid arguments produced on both sides . But it does ...
... primitive life was superior to our own . Lévi - Strauss himself has taken a stand in favor of the primitive.24 I don't want to go into the pros and cons of it and the many subtle and valid arguments produced on both sides . But it does ...
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Ernest Becker. CHAPTER TWO The Primitive World : Economics as Expiation and Power Now that we have talked about how primitive man created or helped create natural bounty , we have to look at what he did with this bounty , how he applied ...
Ernest Becker. CHAPTER TWO The Primitive World : Economics as Expiation and Power Now that we have talked about how primitive man created or helped create natural bounty , we have to look at what he did with this bounty , how he applied ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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