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In this way, acorn animism turns bit by bit into its offspring, botany.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
I was encouraged to pursue this path after noticing that in North China, where dry cereals were the staple crops, a pattern of development of technology and of relations of production rather similar to that of Northwest Europe had started to emerge in the early centuries AD, typified by the formation of large estates, centrally managed and heavily
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Alistair Knox
The venom of one provides the lifeblood of the other.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
A broca come a raiz, a galinha engole a broca, o homem come a galinha, o animal fauve come o homem. A terra, paciente espera. Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Ivaldo Bertazzo • Gesto orientado: Reeducação do movimento (Método Bertazzo) (Portuguese Edition)
It’s surely no coincidence that the most popular ethnographic films of the post-war era either focused on the Kalahari Bushmen and Mbuti Pygmies (‘band’ societies, which could be imagined as roughly resembling hippie communes); or on the Yanomami or ‘fierce people’ (Amazonian horticulturalists who, in Napoleon Chagnon’s version of reality – but
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
In 1837 a packet operated by the American Fur Company in the Blackfeet homeland knowingly sent a smaller boat with traders who had smallpox deep into Blackfeet country. Between ten thousand and fifteen thousand Blackfeet died of the disease, thereby ending their dominance. At that time a vaccine for smallpox had been readily available for at least
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