Dogs in the North. Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

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ID6013799
AuthorsElisabeth Luggauer (0000-0002-3067-9515, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume47
Issue1
Pages103-106
Publication date2020-06-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnologia Fennica (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0355-1776 • E-ISSN: 2489-4982
PublisherEthnologia Fennica (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.23991/ef.v47i1.90132
OpenAlexW3037213667
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Initiated by the finding that 'the master narrative for domestication has ignored the North' (p. 2), the thirteen contributions from the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, biology, cultural history and geography focus on historically developed relations between humans and dogs in regions around the North Pole.The volume is an outcome of the European Research Council Advanced Grant for Arctic Domestication: Emplacing Human-Animal Relationships in the Circumpolar North (Arctic Domus).The first contribution, 'Domestication and the embodied human-dog relationship.Archaeological Perspectives from Siberia', by Tatiana Nomokonova Losey, Lacey Fleming, Katherine Latham and Lesley Harrington deals with the archaeological study of dog domestication as social practices and uses examples from studies in Siberia.Based on archaeological materials and perspectives, the authors examine themes such as emotional bonds with dogs, shared working lives between humans and dogs as well as dog diets from the Holocene on.The chapter contributes to an understanding of domestication as ongoing reciprocal interactions between humans and different other-than-humans, which have always involved more than two species.Paleobiologist Suvi Viranta and archaeologist Kristiina Mannermaa provide a review of the 'Prehistory of dogs in Fennoscandia', which thoroughly unfolds the roles of dogs from hunter-gatherer communities in the Stone Age up to contemporary cultural contexts in Scandinavia and Finland, in which types and roles of prehistorical dogs persist.'Dogs, reindeer and humans in Siberia.Threefold synergetic in the northern landscape' by ethnologist Vladimir Davydov and geographer Konstantin Klokov aims to bring together the mostly separated domains of research concerning human-dog and human-reindeer relations 'to discuss their mutual involvement in the process of northern landscape appropriation' (p.45).Travelling back the road of research on transport solutions, the authors discuss practices of landscape appropriation, which have taken place through

Biology · Domestication · Geography · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Ecology

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