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Part One: To Be and To Have

I. Of Sex and Procreation

II. Of Male Power

III. Of Female Power

Conclusion: To Be and To Have

Part Two: The Neolithic Transition

1. The Neolithic Revolution

2. Sedentarization and Demography

3. Habitat and Community

4. Funerary Rituals

5. Animal Domestication

6. The Neolithic: Bridge between Two Worlds

Part Three: The Urban and Religious Society

I. The Urban Society

1. From Chiefdoms to the Urban Revolution

2. The Urban Revolution

3. The Masculine Paradigm

II. The Religious Society

1. The Birth of the Divine

2. The Birth of Religion

Part Four: The Transcendental God

I. The Age of Renewal

II. The God of the Prophets

Function: God

Epilogue

Sites of the Middle East

Chronological Table

Table of Illustrations

Appendices

Appendix Blood Rituals

Appendix Spirits and Funeral Practices

Appendix Decapitations and Plastered Skulls

Appendix Creation Myths

Appendix Dobrizhoffer

The Masculine Civilization by Rene Hirsch - HTML preview

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