Western Ethnocentrism : African Witchcraft and the Greek Evil Eye. A Comparison between African Witchcraft and the Greek Evil Eye from a Sociology of Religion Perspective Western Ethnocentrism :

Soon thereafter, the crop appears progressively farther west, reaching Greece around 6500 B.C. and Germany around 5000 b.c. Those dates suggest domestication of emmer wheat in the Fertile Crescent, a conclusion supported by the fact that ancestral wild emmer wheat is confined to the area extending from Israel to western Iran and Turkey. However, as we shall see, complications arise in many cases where the same plant or animal was domesticated independently at several different sites. Such cases can often be detected by analyzing the resulting morphological, genetic, or chromosomal differences between specimens of the 98 •GUNS,GERMS, AND STEEL same crop or domestic animal in different areas. For instance, India's zebu breeds of domestic cattle possess humps lacking in western Eurasian cattle breeds, and genetic analyses show that the ancestors of modern Indian and western Eurasian cattle breeds diverged from each other hundreds of thousands of years ago, long before any animals were domesticated anywhere ...»