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... economy , and probably accounts in large measure for juvenile boredom and juvenile delinquency . In neolithic agriculture , man had for the first time a round of work equally varied , equally demanding , equally enjoyable , in which the ...
... economy , and probably accounts in large measure for juvenile boredom and juvenile delinquency . In neolithic agriculture , man had for the first time a round of work equally varied , equally demanding , equally enjoyable , in which the ...
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... economic organization . As with the later pillage of gold from Peru and Mexico by the Spaniards , this ' easy money ' must often have undermined the victor's economy . When such im- perial robber - economies became prevalent and preyed ...
... economic organization . As with the later pillage of gold from Peru and Mexico by the Spaniards , this ' easy money ' must often have undermined the victor's economy . When such im- perial robber - economies became prevalent and preyed ...
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... Economy of abundance , linguistic , 94 Eden , food - gatherer's , 107 Efficiency , monastic , 266 Efflorescence ... economic , 266 Era , destructive modern , 108 Erech , 223 Erman , Adolf , 184 , 193 , 195 Error , man's chronic dis ...
... Economy of abundance , linguistic , 94 Eden , food - gatherer's , 107 Efficiency , monastic , 266 Efflorescence ... economic , 266 Era , destructive modern , 108 Erech , 223 Erman , Adolf , 184 , 193 , 195 Error , man's chronic dis ...
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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