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...evidence of his theory, McCracken points to such herding cultures as the Bahima of Uganda, among whom lactase levels remain high throughout life, as they do in most civilized countries today where dairying is practiced and milk intolerance uncommon. Other herders (such as the neighboring Baganda and most of the Bantu in Africa), who keep cattle but do not drink the milk, have low lactase levels after childhood and a high incidence of intolerance to milk. In other parts of the world, the same pattern exists. More than 85% of Thai children over the age of five, for example, cannot...
...Primitives," says Dr. Lévy-Bruhl, "do not classify the entities in nature as clearly marked out from each other." Hence the "dispositions" of animals, plants and inanimate things are as noteworthy as the attitudes of men. The Bahima of the Nile will not boil milk lest the cow be displeased and give no more. Eskimos, who consider animals much wiser than men, believe that seals are perpetually thirsty because they inhabit salt water. Accordingly when they kill a seal the first thing to do is douse a dipperful of fresh water into the seal's mouth...
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