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44 R.K. ENGLUND
states. 27 Certainly when we speak of “work force,” “farm hands” or
“factory hands” we abstract laborers little less than Babylonian scribes
who recorded pigs and laborers in similar fashion, both serving the
community of man. Our archaic accountants may have forgotten how
close they were to membership in the same fraternity.
27 Algaze (2001), esp. 211-13 (comments pp. 215-28 and 415-18). The
author states that this primitive categorization represents “a new paradigm of
the nature of social relationships in human societies.”