Escape from Evil
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reason for overlooking the momentous place that ritual has had in the life of mankind. The fact is that primitive man imagined he could transfer life from one thing to another, that he could, for example, take the spirit-power that resided in the scalp on an enemy and, by proper dancing and chanties, transfer that life from its former owner to the new one.
About this book
An exploration of the natural history of evil.
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Primitive societiesPhilosophical anthropologyFearAttitude to DeathAngstSociale wetenschappen
First published 1975About the author
Ernest Becker
1924 – 1974
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