Each married woman and widow has a separate house, where she resides with her unmarried daughters, small sons, and pigs.
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Young pigs are treated as pets. As soon as it is weaned a baby pig begins to accompany its mistress to the garden each day. At first it is carried. When it gets a little older it is led by a leash attached to its foreleg, but it quickly learns to follow its mistress in dog-like fashion and the leash is removed.
The young animal receives a great deal of loving attention - it is petted, talked to, and fed choice morsels. It shares the living quarters of the woman's house with the humans until it is between eight months and a year of age, when it is given a stall of its own. Even then it is not domiciled separately from its keepers, for stalls are inside the house, separated from the living quarters only by a rail fence through which the animal can thrust its snout for scratching or for morsels of food.
When it reaches four or five months of age the pig is considered old enough to look after itself and it no longer accompanies its mistress to the gardens. Instead, it is turned loose each morning to spend its day rooting in the secondary growth and forest and to return home in the evening, when it is given its daily ration of garbage and substandard tubers, mainly sweet potatoes.
This ration is substantial, but it probably does not comprise the largest portion of a mature animal's intake. (..) [A]s important to the pig as his ration of garbage and sweet potatoes might be, he may not return home for garbage and sweet potatoes alone.
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It may be suggested that the petting and stroking to which Maring pigs are subjected as infants is an additional factor in keeping them domesticated throughout their lives. Such handling by humans communicates and produces positive affect, through which, along with his ration, the pig is bound to a social group dominated by humans. It is hardly facetious to say that the pig through its early socialisation becomes a member of a Maring family.
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Hendrix et al. suggest that an important factor in the modification of the [animal's] (..) development is the greater ability of the human handler (because he is equipped with hands) than the (..) [mother] to provide tactile stimulation(..), and it may be that animals thus treated develop attachments to humans as strong or even stronger than attachments to their own species.
// Roy A. Rappaport, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People
(glaudīšana FTW!)
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Young pigs are treated as pets. As soon as it is weaned a baby pig begins to accompany its mistress to the garden each day. At first it is carried. When it gets a little older it is led by a leash attached to its foreleg, but it quickly learns to follow its mistress in dog-like fashion and the leash is removed.
The young animal receives a great deal of loving attention - it is petted, talked to, and fed choice morsels. It shares the living quarters of the woman's house with the humans until it is between eight months and a year of age, when it is given a stall of its own. Even then it is not domiciled separately from its keepers, for stalls are inside the house, separated from the living quarters only by a rail fence through which the animal can thrust its snout for scratching or for morsels of food.
When it reaches four or five months of age the pig is considered old enough to look after itself and it no longer accompanies its mistress to the gardens. Instead, it is turned loose each morning to spend its day rooting in the secondary growth and forest and to return home in the evening, when it is given its daily ration of garbage and substandard tubers, mainly sweet potatoes.
This ration is substantial, but it probably does not comprise the largest portion of a mature animal's intake. (..) [A]s important to the pig as his ration of garbage and sweet potatoes might be, he may not return home for garbage and sweet potatoes alone.
(..)
It may be suggested that the petting and stroking to which Maring pigs are subjected as infants is an additional factor in keeping them domesticated throughout their lives. Such handling by humans communicates and produces positive affect, through which, along with his ration, the pig is bound to a social group dominated by humans. It is hardly facetious to say that the pig through its early socialisation becomes a member of a Maring family.
(..)
Hendrix et al. suggest that an important factor in the modification of the [animal's] (..) development is the greater ability of the human handler (because he is equipped with hands) than the (..) [mother] to provide tactile stimulation(..), and it may be that animals thus treated develop attachments to humans as strong or even stronger than attachments to their own species.
// Roy A. Rappaport, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People
(glaudīšana FTW!)
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