Dog's Best Friend?: Rethinking Canid-Human Relations 9780228000488
An examination of different historical and cultural attitudes towards dogs and other canids. An examination of differe
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English Pages [397] Year 2019
Table of contents :
Cover
Dog’s Best Friend?
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking Canid-Human Relations
Section One: Historical Canid-Human Relations
1 Dogs and Humans in Ancient Greece and Rome: Towards a Definition of Extended Appropriate Interaction
2 Well-Bred Is Well-Behaved: The Creation and Meaning of Dog Breeds
3 Significant Others: Fox Gods and Dog Generals in Pre-Modern Japan
Section Two: Dogs in Space
4 Dogs, Dirt, and Public Space
5 Post-Human Families? Dog-Human Relations in the Domestic Sphere
6 Connected and Interconnected: Bali People and Bali Dogs
7 Street Dogs, Rights, and the Pursuit of Justice in India’s Dogopolis
8 Gone Stray: A Journey of Gou Mama and Their Fur-Kids
9 Caring for Istanbul’s Street Animals: Empathy, Altruism, and Rage
Section Three: Exploitation
10 Eating Dogs
11 The Beagle Freedom Project: Activism, Advocacy, and Awareness
Section Four: Wild Canids
12 Becoming “Us”
13 Time to Rethink the Wolf: Reflections on Captivity
14 Of Bounty and Beastly Tales: Wolves and the Canadian Imagination
Conclusion: Canid-Human Relations, Speciesism, and Overlooked Interlocking Systems of Oppression
Contributors
Index
