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... man's capacity to combine a wide variety of animal propensities into an emergent cultural entity : a human ... early man we have reason to suspect the same kind of facility and the same ineptitude . When we seek for proof of man's ...
... man's capacity to combine a wide variety of animal propensities into an emergent cultural entity : a human ... early man we have reason to suspect the same kind of facility and the same ineptitude . When we seek for proof of man's ...
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... man was originally a dreaming animal , it seems likely that he was also a disturbed one ; and the source of his worst fears was his own hyper - active psyche . Man's early use of the opium poppy and other illusion - producing or ...
... man was originally a dreaming animal , it seems likely that he was also a disturbed one ; and the source of his worst fears was his own hyper - active psyche . Man's early use of the opium poppy and other illusion - producing or ...
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Lewis Mumford. and habits of early man . The aboriginal creature they present as man , Homo faber , Man the Tool - Maker , is a late arrival . Before him , even were one to overlook or deny the special contribution of speech , stands Man ...
Lewis Mumford. and habits of early man . The aboriginal creature they present as man , Homo faber , Man the Tool - Maker , is a late arrival . Before him , even were one to overlook or deny the special contribution of speech , stands Man ...
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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