Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures explores diverse canine–human relationships in ancient and contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia.
Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures explores diverse canine–human relationships in ancient and contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia.
Anthropologically combining ethnographic, archaeological, biological, and linguistic evidence, the chapters demonstrate that from Hawaiian backyards to the Australian outback, both dogs and humans act differently depending on the cultural conditions connecting them in their multi-species communities.
This book rewards readers with a profound understanding of the intricate and dynamic relation-ships between dogs and humans, highlighting the significant impact these interspecies interac-tions have on shaping cultural and ecological landscapes.
CHAPTER ONE HumanCanine Interspecies Cultures in Oceania and in
General: An Introduction
Roger Ivar Lohmann
CHAPTER TWO What Arapesh Dogs Mean: The Figure of the Talking Dog on New
Guineas Sepik Coast
Lise M. Dobrin
CHAPTER THREE Dogs in Majuro: Pests, Pets, and Perils
Jordan Prokosch
CHAPTER FOUR More Aloha for the Dogs: The Cultural Context of Dogs in Hawaii
Lynn Morrison
CHAPTER FIVE Is a Dog an Artifact? Archaeological Investigations of Dogs and
Their Humans in Oceania
Karen Greig
CHAPTER SIX Dog or Dog-Gone? A View from Four (Almost) Dogless Islands
Richard Feinberg and Cathleen Pyrek
CHAPTER SEVEN Dogs without Their Humans: Occurrences of Wild Dogs in
Oceania Prior to Europe-an Colonization
Loukas G. Koungoulos
CHAPTER EIGHT Cultural Differences in Dogs in Central New Guinea
Roger Ivar Lohmann
CHAPTER NINE Going to the Dogs with Enewetak/Ujelang Marshall Islanders
Laurence Marshall Carucci
CHAPTER TEN A Samoan Odyssey: Mysterious Spirit Dogs and Interspecies
Enculturation
Fepuleai Micah Van der Ryn
CHAPTER ELEVEN Sniffing toward the Future: Accessing Interspecies
Enculturated Dogs Perspectives
Roger Ivar Lohmann
Roger Ivar Lohmann is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Trent University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. His interspecies household in Markham includes a human called Heather M.-L. Miller and two rescue Shiba Inus: Wasabi (a would-have-been meat dog from a slaughterhouse near Beijing, China) and Shoga (a former puppy mill mother abandoned on the streets of Scarborough, Ontario).
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