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... values and capable of sharing them over regions of space and - far more important -over regions of time , in the sense that the progeny carry for- ward to their own progeny the slow accretion of standardized thoughts and values . This ...
... values and capable of sharing them over regions of space and - far more important -over regions of time , in the sense that the progeny carry for- ward to their own progeny the slow accretion of standardized thoughts and values . This ...
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... values embodied in things that can be looked at , pulled apart , put together , combined , made to recreate a fresh world . It would appear that the visceral drives , the sensory drives , and the activity drives can all be canalized ...
... values embodied in things that can be looked at , pulled apart , put together , combined , made to recreate a fresh world . It would appear that the visceral drives , the sensory drives , and the activity drives can all be canalized ...
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... value , around which other specific and local values are arranged . From such a point of view , it appears that since the self is largely made up of images of persons , and things which are here and now standardized in the culture , and ...
... value , around which other specific and local values are arranged . From such a point of view , it appears that since the self is largely made up of images of persons , and things which are here and now standardized in the culture , and ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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