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... social island cut off from other groups . Wherever this village culture was left to itself , it eventually became fos- silized ; and if later it continued to develop , it was either by being coerced into association with a larger ...
... social island cut off from other groups . Wherever this village culture was left to itself , it eventually became fos- silized ; and if later it continued to develop , it was either by being coerced into association with a larger ...
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... Social Sciences . New York : 1937 . Useful comparative study , in a fashion that has been too completely discarded by those who think there is only one way of eating an orange . Thomas , William L. , Jr. ( editor ) . Man's Role in ...
... Social Sciences . New York : 1937 . Useful comparative study , in a fashion that has been too completely discarded by those who think there is only one way of eating an orange . Thomas , William L. , Jr. ( editor ) . Man's Role in ...
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... Social cement , ritual as , 77 Social organization , 14 , 23 ; authoritarian , 164 ; Pharaonic , 196 Social solidarity , contribu- tion of ritual to , 63 Society , hierarchic struc- ture of , 164 Socrates , 259 Sodom , 204 Solar ...
... Social cement , ritual as , 77 Social organization , 14 , 23 ; authoritarian , 164 ; Pharaonic , 196 Social solidarity , contribu- tion of ritual to , 63 Society , hierarchic struc- ture of , 164 Socrates , 259 Sodom , 204 Solar ...
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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