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... original purpose of ritual was to create order and meaning where none existed ; to affirm them when they had been ... original creation of meaning by a repetitive act , and the later erosion or displacement of meaning by mechanical ...
... original purpose of ritual was to create order and meaning where none existed ; to affirm them when they had been ... original creation of meaning by a repetitive act , and the later erosion or displacement of meaning by mechanical ...
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... original feat of language or has given a more adequate reason for the fact that the rational uses of language were so long delayed , and its application to numbering , sorting , ordering , defining , exactly describing took such a ...
... original feat of language or has given a more adequate reason for the fact that the rational uses of language were so long delayed , and its application to numbering , sorting , ordering , defining , exactly describing took such a ...
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... original hypothesis is sound , for giving so much of his attention to ritual and language . " Historical tradition , " the philosopher Whitehead observed , " is handed down by the direct experience of physical surroundings❞— provided ...
... original hypothesis is sound , for giving so much of his attention to ritual and language . " Historical tradition , " the philosopher Whitehead observed , " is handed down by the direct experience of physical surroundings❞— provided ...
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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