Dogs in the North

Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

Robert J. Losey, Robert P. Wishart, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Robert J. Losey, Robert P. Wishart, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781315437712
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Dogs in the North offers an interdisciplinary in-depth consideration of the multiple roles that dogs have played in the North. Spanning the deep history of humans and dogs in the North, the volume examines a variety of contexts in North America and Eurasia. The case studies build on archaeological, ethnohistorical, ethnographic, and anthropological research to illuminate the diversity and similarities in canine–human relationships across this vast region. The book sheds additional light on how dogs figure in the story of domestication, and how they have participated in partnerships with people across time. With contributions from a wide selection of authors, Dogs in the North is aimed at students and scholars of anthropology, archaeology, and history, as well as all those with interests in human–animal studies and northern societies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• 1 Telling stories of co-domestication and cooperation: An introduction
• 2 Domestication and the embodied human–dog relationship: Archaeological perspectives from Siberia
• 3 Hunters in their own right: Perspectival sharing in Soiot hunters and their dogs
• 4 Dogs, reindeer and humans in Siberia: Threefold synergetic in the northern landscape
• 5 Northern relations: People, sled dogs and salmon in Kamchatka (Russian Far East)
• 6 The archaeology of human–dog relations in Northwest Alaska
• 7 An ethnohistory of dogs in the Mackenzie Basin (western Subarctic)
• 8 The police and dogs during the early patrol years in the Western Canadian Subarctic: An inter-species colonial cooperation?
• 9 Threatening the fantasy of an Arctic welfare state: Canada, Quebec and Inuit dogs in Qikiqtaaluk and Nunavik between 1957 and 1968
• 10 ‘Hard times are coming’: Indeterminacy, prophecies, apocalypse, and dogs
• 11 Dogs among others: Inughuit companions in Northwest Greenland
• 12 Prehistory of dogs in Fennoscandia: A review
• 13 “A dog will come and knock at the door, but remember to treat him as a human”: The legend of the dog in Sámi tradition
• 14 Dogs in Saapmi: From competition to collaboration to cooperation to now
• 15 Conclusion: Dogs in the North
• Index