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Page 115
... less emphasis on material artifacts than on the systems of supernatural belief and ritual in which these artifacts play a significant but minor role . Psychiatric usage . Fetishism as a mental condition may be defined as the necessity ...
... less emphasis on material artifacts than on the systems of supernatural belief and ritual in which these artifacts play a significant but minor role . Psychiatric usage . Fetishism as a mental condition may be defined as the necessity ...
Page 263
... less than b , and the fraction has a value less than 1. In an improper fraction , a is greater than b , and the fraction ( of value greater than 1 ) can be alternately expressed as a mixed number ( the sum of an integer and a proper ...
... less than b , and the fraction has a value less than 1. In an improper fraction , a is greater than b , and the fraction ( of value greater than 1 ) can be alternately expressed as a mixed number ( the sum of an integer and a proper ...
Page 498
... less suscepti- ble to revolutionary forms , being more closely involved with the linear , decorative Art Nou- veau ( q.v. ) style of the turn of the century , but their works are no less expressive of a deep disturbance than are those ...
... less suscepti- ble to revolutionary forms , being more closely involved with the linear , decorative Art Nou- veau ( q.v. ) style of the turn of the century , but their works are no less expressive of a deep disturbance than are those ...
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