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... created , out of its overflow of images and sounds , a system of detachable and storable symbols , it gained a certain independence that other related ani- mals possess only in a minor degree , and that most organisms , to judge by ...
... created , out of its overflow of images and sounds , a system of detachable and storable symbols , it gained a certain independence that other related ani- mals possess only in a minor degree , and that most organisms , to judge by ...
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... created to cope with it . Happily this side of our argument is open to demonstration . Let us con- sider a well - authenticated case of primitive irrationality from South Africa ; for it illustrates the main functional aspects of ...
... created to cope with it . Happily this side of our argument is open to demonstration . Let us con- sider a well - authenticated case of primitive irrationality from South Africa ; for it illustrates the main functional aspects of ...
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... created , the practice of formal repetition , once so necessary , on this hypothesis , for creating meaning , clung to verbal expression . Even late documents , like the Egyptian burial texts or the Sumerian and Akkadian epic poems ...
... created , the practice of formal repetition , once so necessary , on this hypothesis , for creating meaning , clung to verbal expression . Even late documents , like the Egyptian burial texts or the Sumerian and Akkadian epic poems ...
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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