Animals and functional roles: convergences towards historical and theoretical linguistics
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Animals were domesticated as a result of a long-standing symbiosis between men and the species that were available in loco or were acquired through an exchange of resources. In the millennia between the Neolithic and the Iron and Bronze Ages many changes took place in the economic values. Within the horizon of the Indo-European cultures, where Greek zṍon denotes the animal in the generic sense of a “living being”, our investigation touches upon the classification of animals and the relation between animals and social structure. This is a situation which is particularly well documented in the descriptions of the heroic “tribal” societies that are to be found in the literatures of the Western and Eastern Indo-European areas, where by this stage the subdivision into classes according to a hierarchical order appears within the scheme of a basic organisation in classes in which subsistence producers were both crop growers and stock-raisers. A second point of our investigation is the focus on the interpretation of the relevance of the space of reason within interspecies relations, with a particular interest for the premises of the Greek philosophy of nature.
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