> It's very interesting though isn't it! These people were obviously skilled enough to make a clean environment for pickle to... pickle, but were seen as untouchable.
There are often whole systems of technicalities created to rationalize these contradictions.
Here's an even more striking example (priests using clay from the ground of the house of a prostitute to make an icon for a religious festival):
There are all kinds of these scenarios that happen when theoretical social hierarchy comes into practical contact with the lived reality of people in interdependent communities.
There are often whole systems of technicalities created to rationalize these contradictions.
Here's an even more striking example (priests using clay from the ground of the house of a prostitute to make an icon for a religious festival):
https://www.india.com/viral/why-is-the-soil-from-outside-a-p...
There are all kinds of these scenarios that happen when theoretical social hierarchy comes into practical contact with the lived reality of people in interdependent communities.