To incite further pity she claimed that Stewie was addicted to crack, subsistent on dog food, and that his father did not pay child support. ... For example the idea that dog food is unsuitable for a human is taken as truth but why is this so? ... The only logical explanation is that the notion is culturally constructed, and the rationale for declaring dog food as inedible follows closely with the aforementioned Ju/"hoansi example. ... When combined with Meg's claims that Stewie's father was a "deadbeat" who did not pay child support, one gets a rather interesting picture of Qu...

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The meaning of the word dog is not inherent in the sounds themselves; it is assigned, to the sounds by human beings. ... When one considers the mother-in-law taboo in its relationship to the place of residence of a newly married couple, the customary division of labor between the sexes, their respective roles in the society, and these in turn to the technology of society, the mother-in-law taboo becomes, again by definition, culture. ...

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