The emergence of domestication in human history and its implications
In Module 3 of Rewilding Mythology, Sophie Strand and Peter Michael Bauer converse about immediate-return and delayed-return societies, emphasising the impact of food storage methods on social dynamics and ecological transformations. Discussing the shift from a relational and participatory existence to an object-oriented culture with the accumulation of domesticated animals and grain, they ask and answer: how do human societies change as we find new ways of survival? What was gained and lost, in this case as we developed the ability to store food for ourselves?