The Functions of Ritual
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Patterns of the Animal World
The human infant is born many years too soon. It acquires its human character, upright stature, the ability to speak under the influence of the specific culture context. So also, I would hold in human life as well. The rather crude notion that energy and strength is represented and rendered through breaking structures is refuted by all that we know about the history of life and of society.
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