Trump Takes Them From Behind: Origins of the Deep State
'The provision of shelter and the storage of food associate the house with caring. The domus as defined here is the concept and practice of nurturing and caring, but at a still more general level it obtains its dramatic force from the exclusion, control and domination of the wild, the outside (which I shall later describe as the 'agrios'). Culture, then, is opposed to nature, but in an historically specific manner.
I was also attracted to the use of the term domus (and other related terms such as 'foris' and 'agrios' which I will define later) because of the possibility that many of our contemporary concepts do have prehistoric roots. MOst dictionaries link domesticate to domestic to Latin domus, to Greek domos, to Sanskrit damas, to Old Slavonic domu, to Old Irish doim and to the Indo-European dom- or dem-. Further links are also made to domicile, dominant, dominus (whence don, donna in the sense of a distinguished man or woman), dome (house, mansion, cathedral church), domain, dame, tame.
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As radical economic change takes place, associated with changes in structures of social domination, do the symbolic codes seem to determine or be determined by the changes in the economic structures? Is it possible, as Duby (1980) has argued in another study of long term processes, in Medieval Europe, that the superstructure can at times act as infrastructure, playing a dominant role?'
(Hodder I, The Domestication of Europe: Structure and Contingency in Neolithic Societies)