"aphorism" = ?

[Joel S. Berson]

I would have stopped at "encodes the subsistence strategy".

Joel

At 11/11/2006 10:18 PM, you wrote:
>1995 C. L. Crumley, in Bettina Arnold & D. Blair Gibson _Celtic
>Chiefdom, Celtic State: The Evolution of Complex Social Systems in
>Prehistoric Europe_ (Cambridge: C.U.P.) 26: The folksong "Betsy from
>Pike" encodes the subsistence strategy of many who took part in the
>American westward expansion. Betsy...took animals likely to be
>useful either along the route or in establishing herself in a new
>farming community. In this paper I follow Hubert (1934) and suggest
>that Betsy's strategy is an aphorism for that of later Iron Age
>Celtic peoples who also drew on elements of a mature, temperate
>European subsistence strategy.
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