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100 1 _aHirschkind, Lynn
245 1 0 _aSal/manteca/panela :
_bethnoveterinary practice in highland Ecuador.
260 _aArlington
_bAmerican Antropological Association
_c2000
500 _aEn: American Anthropologist. -- Vol. 102 No. 2 (junio 2000), pp. 290-302. ISSN 00027294
520 _aIn this essay, I analyze the feeding of salt, lard, and raw sugar balls to cattle, as practiced in the southern Ecuadorian highlands. These balls provide nutritional satisfaction for cattle and conceptual satisfaction for their owners. Domestic animals are understood to share many human characteristics, needs, and desires. The metaphoric extension of these traits to cattle responds to the quest not only for cognitive order, but also for the pragmatic purposes of management in an uncertain and precarious agrarian environment,
650 4 _aMEDICINA VETERINARIA
650 4 _aAGRICULTURA
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773 0 _tAmerican anthropologist
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900 _aAM. ANTHROPOL.-02/00
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