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Lewis Mumford. the mechanical order of ritual may have been a benign alternative to a com- pulsion neurosis . By means of ritual , I suggest , early man first confronted and overcame his own strangeness , identified himself with cosmic ...
Lewis Mumford. the mechanical order of ritual may have been a benign alternative to a com- pulsion neurosis . By means of ritual , I suggest , early man first confronted and overcame his own strangeness , identified himself with cosmic ...
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... ritual has constantly borne within itself some of the very irrationality it existed to overcome . Susanne Langer , in her spirited exposition of symbolic ritual as an essential agent in human development , properly pointed out that the ...
... ritual has constantly borne within itself some of the very irrationality it existed to overcome . Susanne Langer , in her spirited exposition of symbolic ritual as an essential agent in human development , properly pointed out that the ...
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... ritual must have established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further ...
... ritual must have established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further ...
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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