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Page 109
... body decorations , masks , costumes , wigs , tattooings , scarifications , in all peoples down to our own day , one must assume , as I noted before , that this character - transforming practice is an extremely ancient one ; and that the ...
... body decorations , masks , costumes , wigs , tattooings , scarifications , in all peoples down to our own day , one must assume , as I noted before , that this character - transforming practice is an extremely ancient one ; and that the ...
Page 110
... body is hard to fathom . Many of these primitive body transformations involved difficult and painful sur- gery , and were often , considering the likelihood of infection , highly dan- gerous . Yet tattooing , scarification , sexual ...
... body is hard to fathom . Many of these primitive body transformations involved difficult and painful sur- gery , and were often , considering the likelihood of infection , highly dan- gerous . Yet tattooing , scarification , sexual ...
Page 326
... Body alteration , techno- logical implications of , 110 Body decoration , arts of , 111 ' Book of Changes , ' Chinese , 173 Book of Hours , [ 29 ] Boomerang , 114 Boredom , royal , 206 Borelli , Giovanni A. , 287 Boring , 136 , 137 ...
... Body alteration , techno- logical implications of , 110 Body decoration , arts of , 111 ' Book of Changes , ' Chinese , 173 Book of Hours , [ 29 ] Boomerang , 114 Boredom , royal , 206 Borelli , Giovanni A. , 287 Boring , 136 , 137 ...
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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