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... civilization : not merely did it turn daily work into a grievous penalty , but it diminished the psychal rewards ... civilization lives long enough to tell the tale- doubtless make exactly parallel observations . 2 : THE TRAUMA OF ...
... civilization : not merely did it turn daily work into a grievous penalty , but it diminished the psychal rewards ... civilization lives long enough to tell the tale- doubtless make exactly parallel observations . 2 : THE TRAUMA OF ...
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... civilization , ' exalted as the supreme manifestation of all ' sovereign power " ? In its original geographic setting , the labor machine is almost self- explanatory and even self - justifying . By what other means could the so- called ...
... civilization , ' exalted as the supreme manifestation of all ' sovereign power " ? In its original geographic setting , the labor machine is almost self- explanatory and even self - justifying . By what other means could the so- called ...
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... Civilizations . Cambridge , Mass .: 1901 . A Peabody Museum paper , by an archeologist once pre - eminent in her field whose analysis of the constellation of institutions that marked the emergence of civilization anticipated the richer ...
... Civilizations . Cambridge , Mass .: 1901 . A Peabody Museum paper , by an archeologist once pre - eminent in her field whose analysis of the constellation of institutions that marked the emergence of civilization anticipated the richer ...
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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