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... KINGSHIP The increase in the food supply and the population that marked the dawn of civilization may well be ... kingship . The myth of the machine and the cult of divine kingship rose together . Until the nineteenth century conventional ...
... KINGSHIP The increase in the food supply and the population that marked the dawn of civilization may well be ... kingship . The myth of the machine and the cult of divine kingship rose together . Until the nineteenth century conventional ...
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Lewis Mumford. littled the part that kings and institutions derived from kingship have actu- ally played . Today , both historians and anthropologists have been looking at kingship with a more open eye , if only because the massing of ...
Lewis Mumford. littled the part that kings and institutions derived from kingship have actu- ally played . Today , both historians and anthropologists have been looking at kingship with a more open eye , if only because the massing of ...
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... kingship , and the institutions that supported kingship , were firmly established they remained the chief political model of civilized soci- ety right down to the end of the nineteenth century ; and in the course of five thousand years ...
... kingship , and the institutions that supported kingship , were firmly established they remained the chief political model of civilized soci- ety right down to the end of the nineteenth century ; and in the course of five thousand years ...
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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