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... primate origins are less than a single heartbeat of its own life , and like an ancient , symbolic elder it stands aside , reserving its judgment on the divided nature of this recent species . + It was sculpted in Paleozoic times , and its.
... primate origins are less than a single heartbeat of its own life , and like an ancient , symbolic elder it stands aside , reserving its judgment on the divided nature of this recent species . + It was sculpted in Paleozoic times , and its.
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... nature , there are also sudden changes that are not unlike the outbursts of temperament that threaten the fragile order of society . Yet man is a creature who has depended upon a degree of order for sheer survival . He has achieved it ...
... nature , there are also sudden changes that are not unlike the outbursts of temperament that threaten the fragile order of society . Yet man is a creature who has depended upon a degree of order for sheer survival . He has achieved it ...
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... nature . And all of this is imbued with air , encapsuled in imaginings that every human group has devised as answers to the perennial questions of who we are , what is our place in the universe , and what is the end of our brief journey ...
... nature . And all of this is imbued with air , encapsuled in imaginings that every human group has devised as answers to the perennial questions of who we are , what is our place in the universe , and what is the end of our brief journey ...
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Angoram animals Anthropology Asaro Valley Australian National University Bark-cloth painting bird of paradise bolong carved cathedral celebrated ceremonial dress characteristic Chimbu area coastal colors coral atolls crocodile's head cult D'ENTRECASTEAUX dance-frame dancing ground Dani-speaking decorated dug-out canoe Dutch Eastern Enga enshrined exist expression feathers festivals Gardens GEORGE HOLTON German New Guinea goals Gulf of Papua harvested yams HUMAN AVIARY impersonal intricate Kenneth E kinship Lake Kopiago lives low-lying valley male initiation man's Maprik marine creatures Markham marriage Matthiesen Melanesian languages Melanesian-speakers men's cult-house Minj Mount Hagen myths Painted bark-cloth hangings paperback Papuan languages photographs Pidgin English plumes Polynesia powers that transcend reflected Relatives gathered sampela School of Pacific Scribner Sepik River skilled species stret suprahuman tasol Territory of Papua thatch timeless transcend his limited transferred to Australia Trobriand Islands ultimate vaulting vernacular differences village vulnerable Wabag Wahgi wealth Western Highlands women yam storehouse York