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... activities that directly sustain him , but in the symbolic activities which give sig- nificance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations . THE CONDITION OF MAN ( 1944 ) The last century , we all ...
... activities that directly sustain him , but in the symbolic activities which give sig- nificance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations . THE CONDITION OF MAN ( 1944 ) The last century , we all ...
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... activities . As long as the paleoanthropologist regarded material objects - mainly bones and stones - as the only scientifically admissible evidence of early man's activities , nothing could be done to alter this stereotype . I shall ...
... activities . As long as the paleoanthropologist regarded material objects - mainly bones and stones - as the only scientifically admissible evidence of early man's activities , nothing could be done to alter this stereotype . I shall ...
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... activities we associate with ' civilization ' can be traced back to this original implosion of social and technical forces . These works created a well - founded confidence in human powers , different from the illusions and naive self ...
... activities we associate with ' civilization ' can be traced back to this original implosion of social and technical forces . These works created a well - founded confidence in human powers , different from the illusions and naive self ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York