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Domestic animals hold a special and central place in the Systems of representation of pastoral or agro-pastoral societies. Their value is evident in the number of social and ritual practices: from animal sacrifice to capital, as a semantic extension of cattle, this value is related, cognitivelly and materially, to the reproduction of human societies. We try to show in this article that if the animal is "bon à penser", it is because of similarities between animal and human reproduction.
Capital, Cultural code, Domestication, Reproduction, Sacrifice, Sexuality, Taxonomy, Value.