SOSC 1740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Thorkild Jacobsen, Pulling Power, Digging Stick
18 Jun 2017
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Sanctuary, village, and stronghold: what does mumford mean when he states, human life swings between two poles: movement and settlement ? (5) The contrast between these modes may be traced back to the original break between the mainly free-moving protozoa that formed the animal kingdom and the relatively sessile organisms that belong to the vegetable kingdom. At every level of life one trades mobility for security, or in reverse, immobility for adventure. Mid the uneasy wanderings of paleolithic man, the dead were the first permanent dwelling: to have a a cavern, a mound marked by a cairn, a collective barrow. These were landmarks to which the living probably intervals, to commune with or placate the ancestral spirits. he of the dead antedates the city of the city returned at living. In one sense, indeed, of the dead is the forerunner, almost the core, of every living city. the city.
