Italy’s Special Relation Between Culture And Agriculture

Oct 26, 2018 599

It would be hard to identify a dynamic that is more basic to Italy and Italians than the relation between agriculture and culture; or, to render it in Italian: coltura-cultura, the almost identical words clearly demonstrating their related nature. Of course, this relation is evident throughout the world, because it was principally through the development of agriculture that groups of human beings were able to settle in one place and still generate enough calories to sustain themselves, putting an end to the ongoing hardship of hunting and gathering that allowed for only the most meager existence.

With settlement and increased leisure, humans were able to dedicate time, energy and resources to developing the institutions that characterize civilization: housing, storage, roads and other infrastructure, and the social institutions that they supported. This is not to say that hunter-gatherer societies did not develop similar cultural phenomena, but that this human propensity was enhanced by the development of agriculture and the settlement in one place that it allowed.

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SOURCE: https://italicsmag.com

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