DVM 4330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marvin Harris, Book Of Leviticus, List Of Domesticated Animals

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 4330
• Professor: Alberto Florez- Malagon

Document Summary

The origins of cultures by marvin harris (129-138; Marvin harris explores the complex ways in which subsistence techniques relate to ecological and social relationships. The aversion to certain flesh like pork and beef in religions is not an irrational aversion. The production of meat especially beef and pork have high low cost value, which means that it a domesticated animal is worth more alive than dead, this was true in the case of cows and oxen. Domesticating pig was nutritionally valuable in neolithic times but it became more and more expensive as population density rose and deforestation was taking place for subsistence farming in the middle east. Pig raising posed a threat to an entire subsistence system in the hot lands of ancient. Middle east, and areas suitable for raising pig became restricted for it needed natural forage. Increasingly, raising pig rendered them directly competitive to human beings, because pigs needed to be fed and needed shelter.