Best
regards,
Lee
G. Broderick. BA (Hons), MSc, FZS
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With
respect, a pullet is a young female, a cockerel is a
young male. The usage "point of lay pullet" is still
commonplace. And what about capons, large fat male
eunuch table birds.
The "lowly
peasant" and the "elite" were only using the words of
their respective native languages. We merely had a
ruling class who spoke a foreign language. Mouton is
still sheep and sheep meat in French, for example.
What is the
linguistic derivation of bacon? Staple meat of the
laboratores.
I’m
not sure that we can discuss pheasants in this light,
since they were introduced from Asia, probably some time
in the middle to late mediaeval period. In which case,
it may be derived directly from the Latin, rather than
via French. What the reasoning is behind quail, I have
no idea.
I
think Geraldine may have hit upon something though:
Pullet
(Poulet)
Pullets,
of course, are birds less than a year old and may well
have been called this to distinguish the young male
birds, destined for the table, from those hens which
would go on to produce eggs. If this is the case, we
then have to ask not “why do we still call chickens
chickens when we eat them” but “why did we stop calling
them pullets?”
Anton’s
idea re. the need to label unrecognisable chunks of
prepared meat is a valid one. There’s also a social
interpretation of the language however, whereby the
lowly peasants who do the grubby work of looking after
the animals have one word, whereas the elite have
another word to use when it enters their domain.
Best regards,
Lee G. Broderick. BA (Hons),
MSc, FZS
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From: Analysis of
animal remains from archaeological sites
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Sent: 16 November 2010 15:53
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] Re : [ZOOARCH] Animal
Writes - zooarchaeology of Pets
then again... poultry (FR poule)
and hen (GER Huhn)...
De : Burke Ariane
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Objet : Re: [ZOOARCH] Animal Writes -
zooarchaeology of Pets
I'm guessing low-status food... Except for quail
(caille) and pheasant (faisan)?
AB
Prof. Ariane Burke,
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From: Analysis of animal remains from
archaeological sites on behalf of Lee G. Broderick
Sent: Tue 2010-11-16 9:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Animal Writes -
zooarchaeology of Pets
I'm sure most people on this list are aware of
this, but the English "linguistic separation
between meat and the animal" is a result of the
Norman conquest - the Anglo-Saxons tended the
animals in life, but then served the prepared
product to their Norman overlords, at which point
they acquired the French word:
Cow > Beef (Bouef)
Sheep > Mutton (Mouton)
Pig > Pork (Porc)
Deer > Venison (Venaison)
Quite why this didn't affect the vocabulary
relating to poultry I have no idea.
Best regards,
Lee G. Broderick. BA (Hons), MSc, FZS
Zooarchaeologist
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From: Analysis of animal remains from
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Animal Writes -
zooarchaeology of Pets
Thanks for the information provided by folk so
far....
We have already done a workshop based around dogs
and domestication, (youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOqTFgiUWVk
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOqTFgiUWVk>
and blog/website http://futureanimals.wordpress.com/
<http://futureanimals.wordpress.com/>
) . Dogs are good example as they are both 'pets',
working animals and food - however I am keen to
expand our range of examples to other species.
We do have a challenge in that most modern day
interactions with animals are based around pets
and to a lesser extent food - (or CGI stories!) .
Of course in the English our linguistic separation
between meat and the animal e.g. beef and cattle
is also interesting (I remember the day my
daughter could read duck in the supermarket -
wanted to know why ducks were in there and then
shrieked when I told her we ate animals - she
thought beef/pork/sausages were an abstraction -
and was strangely immune to chickens (I think
feeding ducks in the park was more relevant to
her)).
Anyhow trying to come up with an appreciation of
animals in society in 30 mins is a challenge, and
in my experience of the 'future animals' dog
focused work shop pets were the one thing everyone
could (and would) talk about and it was remarkably
easy to then move to discussions on the ethics of
animal breeding and then to food production and
security (and beyond).
We will be creating some on-line resources
relating to these workshops in due course and we
also have a student event to broaden out the
workshops to environmental archaeology coming up
soon http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=155858611112288
<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=155858611112288>
.
In the meantime any more evidence for ancient pets
will be most welcome....
Jacqui Mulville (PhD),
Follow - Leverhulme Artist in Residence at
Osteography
http://osteography.wordpress.com/
<http://osteography.wordpress.com/>
School of History, Archaeology and Religion,
Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum
Drive, CARDIFF, CF10 3EU
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/archaeology/jm1/
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