[lit-ideas] Re: Alternative food sources
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:22:28 +0900
On 2004/08/30, at 23:00, Gregory {Greg} Downing wrote:
> The somewhat levistraussian discourse posted on expanding circles from
> pets
> to wild animals fails to take into account that as circumstances change
> culture too evolves in a dialectical or (etymologically and literally)
> ecological fashion: If new modes of food-production or food-gathering
> don't
> fit the old paradigm, people over time can easily alter the paradigm
> and/or
> substitute a new one.
Quite true. The Levi-Straussian business simply provides a proximate
answer to such questions as why do Koreans and Brits who are, in
historical terms contemporaries, have such different attitudes toward
eating dog. The really interesting thing to watch in the case of the
Koreans is what will happen now that the habit of keeping dogs as pets
has begun to flourish there, as it has, for example, in Japan.
Cheers,
John L. McCreery
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