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... done in these few pages is to try to show that primitive society was organized for a certain kind of production of life , a ritual technique of manufacture of the things of the world The Primitive World : Ritual as Practical Technics 21.
... done in these few pages is to try to show that primitive society was organized for a certain kind of production of life , a ritual technique of manufacture of the things of the world The Primitive World : Ritual as Practical Technics 21.
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... production of animals was superseded by other technol- ogies . The unfolding of history is precisely the saga of the succession of new and different ideologies of organismic self - perpetuation— and the new injustices and heightened ...
... production of animals was superseded by other technol- ogies . The unfolding of history is precisely the saga of the succession of new and different ideologies of organismic self - perpetuation— and the new injustices and heightened ...
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... production possible . And so it made no difference how many were killed , or from what side they came . War was a sacred duty and a holy cause , but it was the king's cause : its primary meaning was to prove his power to survive . And ...
... production possible . And so it made no difference how many were killed , or from what side they came . War was a sacred duty and a holy cause , but it was the king's cause : its primary meaning was to prove his power to survive . And ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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