ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sub-Saharan Africa, Behavioral Modernity, Omnivore

• School: UConn
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000
• Professor: Megan Stamey Mc Alvain( T A)

Document Summary

" the kind of social relationships that americans traditionally cultivate with animals". For example, dogs and horse are considered inedible because they are "prototypical pets" of. An edible animals outer muscles are highly valued and do not closely resemble easy to distinguish human features. Animals" innards on the other hand like liver, heart, and tongue are inferior cuts. "americans interpret animals" bodies as if they were human bodies. We believe that our inner selves are our true selves. Better cuts of meat are highly favored and sought after. These cuts are more expensive than the inferior innards. Only those who can afford to buy the better cuts are considered "better". Those who can only afford the inexpensive cuts are thereby considered inferior. These inferior cuts of meat closely resemble "the highly valued center of our own body" so eating them is. Meat "tangibly represents human control of the natural world".