<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Oct 7, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com" class="">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="WordSection1"><p class="">I’d say if there is some kind of communication that can occur (verbal or non-verbal) that entity has higher
status than those than cannot engage in communication. </p></div></div></div></blockquote>There ia a fun example of this from ethnography, which I used to open a talk at the ABQ museum of natural history many years ago, to introduce the diorama that the NM Highlands Media Arts kids had created for Origin of Life.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I will get all the diacritics wrong below, but indulge me. The motif was self/other distinctions, and how they have come from human habit also to put unwarranted priors of separation into science. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>This is from the Ju/`hoansi of S. Africa and Namibia. Their name for themselves is also the generic term for humans. They have another word, /!xon, for wild and dangerous things. Interesting thing is, what makes something a kind of /!xon is that you can’t understand its language. Thus there are both 4-legged and 2-legged /!xon, with the Bantu herders and farmers who flooded into the region 800 years ago, as well as the Afrikaners, being the 2-legged kind. In that set, the Ju/`hoansi rank the 4-legged /!xon a little higher than the 2-legged kind, saying of the 4-leggers “we can at least understand their language a little”.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I believe that and other such stories come from here:</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dobe-Hoansi-STUDIES-CULTURAL-ANTHROPOLOGY/dp/1111828776" class="">https://www.amazon.com/Dobe-Hoansi-STUDIES-CULTURAL-ANTHROPOLOGY/dp/1111828776</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>I have a particular empathy with that story.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Eric</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>