How Grains Domesticated Us, James C. Scott, SOAS, University of London
Food Studies at SOAS http://www.soas.ac.uk/foodstudies/ This SOAS Food Studies Centre Distinguished Lecture titled "How Grains Domesticated Us" was given by James C. Scott (Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University) on 11 December 2014. How is it that homo sapiens came, only in the last 5% of its long career on the planet, to live in concentrated heaps of people, grain, and domesticated animals and, later, governed by units we call states? How were these earliest structured and governed? How did they persist (or perish) and how did they change the landscape and people they controlled? It is surely striking that virtually all classical states were based on grain, including millets. History records no banana, cassava, sago, or sweet potato states. Why are the grassy grain crops---typically barley, rye, wheat, rice, maze, and millets---so closely associated with the earliest states? My guess is that only grains are suited to concentrated production, tax assessment, cadastral surveys, storage, and rationing. Find out more about this event http://goo.gl/E2a8pl A Q&A session was held the day after this event, you can find it at http://youtu.be/V3tzE2i--dA
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What is Domestic? Domestic is like your house broke peppy dog! Sit, lay down, roll over, play dead. Ain't you a good dog! Thou shall not do that, thou shall not do this, ect ect! Good Jew dog! You see enemies domestic are the one that gave their free will to another by obeying what others tell you to do! I am not in fact domestic! Prove it , OK, i have broken the 10 commandment many times, with the record to back it up! How about you? Are you a domesticated enemy?
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