Domestication

alternative explainations to Kali’s evolution than domestication is promising. Kali is significant because of her differences. Her original view as powerful and dangerous is inspiring, she is a strong female role model for young worshippers. Many who study Hindu texts have commented on their patriarchal nature, therefore the presence of strong, powerful goddesses is important. Kali represents such a goddess. Because of this, an apparent domestication over time is troubling. The idea that such a…

Mankind’s bond with animals has been ever present and strong throughout history. Early animal domestication dates back more than 10,000 years ago. Whether it be for agricultural purpose or for companionship, animals have served a role by our side for centuries. The question is, when does this relationship turn from one that was mutually beneficial to While humans, like many species, eat meat, that is very different than the forms of exploitation many animals experience today. Showing a stark…

begins this movie by mentioning the audience that the plants have been using us and working on us. This movie examines four plants that ensure their survival with satisfying human yearnings or desires. Moreover, this movie explores on the “dance of domestication” between plants and humans. Lastly, this movie proves that the humans fits in the “web of nature” rather than standing outside of this web. Apple is an universal fruit around the world today. Apple originated from the ancient forests…

The domestication of animals was an essential step in early human civilization. The ability to utilize the strength or speed of larger mammals provided us with the leisure time essential to innovation. These days, the most visible example of domestication is with canis familiaris, the domestic dog. Our canine friends provide humans with the more nebulous benefit of companionship, though they once were essential to any hunting party. In the mid-20th century, Soviet geneticist Dimitry Belyaev…

Plant and animal domestication marked the transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic era. This allowed human population to increased rapidly, but it required more labor work in the agriculture field. Some groups had to move around to get food due to weather climate changes…

changed the world, yet the potato could easily brag “Been there, done that. Twice.” The domestication of the potato allowed many different civilizations, especially in Europe, to grow and flourish by providing a stable source of nutrients and vitamins. People all around the world today enjoy potatoes in hundreds of different forms, but the tuber everyone knows and loves was not always so easily accepted. The domestication of the potato started nearly 13,000 years ago in The Andes by the native…

In this chapter, Jared Diamond discusses why many animals that seem suitable for domestication weren’t domesticated. Diamond notes that the few important big domestic mammals are mainly big terrestrial herbivores with 14 such species mainly discovered in Eurasia. This is most likely because Eurasia has the most large terrestrial wild mammal species and lost the fewest of these species to extinction. However, other continents also have terrestrial mammals which brings up the question of why other…

to relate how drastically dogs has evolved and distanced themselves from wolves. However, researchers have a difficult time determining the characteristics of dog evolution immediately when dogs domesticated: “bones of animals in the process of domestication generally do not reveal intermediate steps between wild forebears and modern domestic animals” (Cohn 1997). Therefore, studies that researchers conduct must be taken over a wide period…

Translation” (1995). The two translation strategies are discussed in terms of “domestication” and “foreignization”. Domestication is to reduce the foreignness or the strangeness of the foreign text to be used in target language. When a foreign text is domesticated, the reader of target language easily understands it as if it is a part of their literatures, then they are not defamilarized from the text. As indicated by Venuti, domestication is an ethnocentric reduction of the foreign text to…

1. As stated in “The Domestication of the Savage Male” division of labor among sexes promotes mutual dependence. This division of labor promotes this by giving each gender a chance to provide for each other in different and equally significant ways. This also allows all individuals to participate in tasks, so that one individual is not stuck with an overwhelming load of things to do. In the Western world, it seems that men often provide financially and physically by protecting their families,…