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... spirits themselves . The anthro- pologist Robert Lowie was a specialist on those most egalitarian of all primitive peoples , the Plains Indian tribes . Even these fiercely independent Indians , he tells us , gave up their equalitarian ...
... spirits themselves . The anthro- pologist Robert Lowie was a specialist on those most egalitarian of all primitive peoples , the Plains Indian tribes . Even these fiercely independent Indians , he tells us , gave up their equalitarian ...
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... spirits ; he went to see a dead soul safely to the other side , to harangue the invisible spirits and make them let go of a sick person , etc. The shaman was the hero who " died " and was reborn unfailingly , who thus regularly acted ...
... spirits ; he went to see a dead soul safely to the other side , to harangue the invisible spirits and make them let go of a sick person , etc. The shaman was the hero who " died " and was reborn unfailingly , who thus regularly acted ...
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Ernest Becker. and animal spirits , a kind of spiritual unification of the life of the tribe with a sector of nature . Out of the invisible world of spirits life tumbled in an endless cycle of embodiments and returns . The individual got ...
Ernest Becker. and animal spirits , a kind of spiritual unification of the life of the tribe with a sector of nature . Out of the invisible world of spirits life tumbled in an endless cycle of embodiments and returns . The individual got ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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