New Video - The Island That Banned Goats
Added 2024-08-30 13:55:06 +0000 UTCMade a short video about an ancient Greek island that banned goats for mysterious reasons.
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This story of banning goats is great! In the vain hope that I can contribute in some small way to the solving of this mystery, here’s a (very) similar story from a small group on Papua New Guinea! My source is Joel Robbins: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society. He writes about a ban on pigs, known as “pig law”, as follows: “During the later part of the colonial era, in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when the position of Kaunsil [Council] had only recently been established, the Urapmin had taken advantage of the ability it gave them to exercise governmental-type powers over themselves to institute a new law regarding the treatment of pigs. This law holds that full-grown pigs cannot be in the village. If they come into the village (or into people’s gardens), they will immediately be killed. This is a tough law to follow: no one likes to see a pig killed to no ceremonial end, and the Urapmin claim the law is the reason that they have fewer pigs than their Telefomin neighbours. They say, however, that even though is makes them a “rubbish line” (“rubis lain”) that is perennially short of pigs, it is a law worth having. Pigs that come into villages, rooting up village plazas and leaving their excrement everywhere, and those that find their way into gardens and tear them up, routinely cause disputes between people and these disputes in turn destroy people’s “Christian lives” (Kristin Laip). In the end, the death of some pigs is a small price to pay for keeping the community from falling into sin.” from the prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People pg. xxii Although this example is primarily about sin, I can totally imagine a community outlawing certain livestock to preserve community cohesion and prevent disputes - even if it were not “sinful” per se. You can also see that the law is primarily targeted at people within the community (other Urapmin), not those from outside - just like in the goats case. There are even more similarities with regards to the court, Robbins talks about how everyone in the community believed that this “pig law” was a real law filed at the district court, and how it, quote, “would give it a sanction higher than that of the Urapmin community, making it very difficult for the Urapmin people to evade or repeal.” The book itself isn’t really about that, but I thought it was an interesting parallel! I’ve only just started reading it for my HSPS course, but I can add to this if I find any more mentions of the pig law! Thanks as always for the video zoe!
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2024-09-12 05:30:06 +0000 UTCI haven't seen the video and don't have the time to watch it. Finbol is a total intellectual fraud and hack. It's very easy to create something that has the appearance of research but lacks any actual critical thinking or real knowledge of the topic. He has done this on other videos I have seen many times.
anarchozoe
2024-09-11 07:49:16 +0000 UTCThis was a fun little video, and very interesting. Sorry if this is completely off-topic, but I'm not sure how to message or post on other subjects... Wondered what you make of this video from Finnish-Bolshevik? https://youtu.be/TnUNrTX8YCo?si=aV3mZmy_Ki_JTEIs It kind of breaks the ending to my imagined five season long-form tv series lol. I definitely have issues with some of his sources, but it's also clearly well researched. But yeah, taking content from the Soviet archives as gospel seems frankly delusional
Richard Falkner
2024-09-11 07:01:36 +0000 UTC
