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An exploration of the natural history of evil.
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Table of Contents
Introduction. The human condition: between appetite and ingenuity
The primitive world: ritual as practical technics
The primitive world: economics as expiation and power
The origin of inequality
The evolution of inequality
The new historical forms of immortality power
Money: the new universal immortality ideology
The basic dynamic of human evil
The nature of social evil
Social theory: the merger of Marx and Freud
Retrospect and conclusion: What is the heroic society?
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Companion vol.: The denial of death.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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."
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