The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human developmentFor contents, see Author Catalog. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 62
Page 6
... hand - made stone artifacts until far along in his development . Even a distant relative of man , the gorilla , puts together a nest of leaves for comfort in sleeping , and will throw a bridge of great fern stalks across a shallow ...
... hand - made stone artifacts until far along in his development . Even a distant relative of man , the gorilla , puts together a nest of leaves for comfort in sleeping , and will throw a bridge of great fern stalks across a shallow ...
Page 21
... hands made upon the walls of caves as far apart as Africa and Australia . These imprints are all the more puzzling ... hand may , even more sharply than a cairn of stones , count as the earliest public memorial to the dead . But it is ...
... hands made upon the walls of caves as far apart as Africa and Australia . These imprints are all the more puzzling ... hand may , even more sharply than a cairn of stones , count as the earliest public memorial to the dead . But it is ...
Page 331
... Hand , symbolism of , [ 9 ] ; varied functions of , 7 Hand - axe , 24 , 100 Handicraft , [ 22-23 ] ; justi- fication of , 238 ; West- ern , 256 Hands , imprints of , 21 ; pa- leolithic , 65 ; as tools , 100 Harappa , 165 Hard conditions ...
... Hand , symbolism of , [ 9 ] ; varied functions of , 7 Hand - axe , 24 , 100 Handicraft , [ 22-23 ] ; justi- fication of , 238 ; West- ern , 256 Hands , imprints of , 21 ; pa- leolithic , 65 ; as tools , 100 Harappa , 165 Hard conditions ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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