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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In) ID: #36648 Short Feasting Food
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One  of  the  things  that  people  have  said  about  agriculture  is  that  on  the  whole  it's  more  labor    than  hunting  and  gathering,  and  that's  one  of  the  reasons  why  people  have  looked  to  explanations  which,  you  might  say,  are  kind  of    factors    that  people  have  been  forced  into  agriculture  because  they  had  no  alternative.  That  is    what  may  happen.  But  at  the  very  beginning  it  could  be  that  agriculture  was  developed  because  people  wanted  special  status  foods  for  feasting;  that  it  was  actually  a    need.  I  mean,  how  much  of  what  we  do  in  our  lives  is  generated  by  competition  with  others?  And  a  lot  of  that  is  powered  by  desire  for  new  things,  new  statuses,  new    it  might  be.  Respect,  recognition  also  are  important.  And  in  small-scale  societies  a  lot  of  those  sorts  of  factors  are    by  the  ability  to,  for  instance,  throw  feasts.  One  possibility  is  that  some  of  these  foods  that  were  being  grown  were  actually  intended  especially  as  feasting  foods.

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