A History of Dogs in the Early Americas

By Marion Schwartz

Book Overview

For more than 12,000 years the dog has coexisted with humans in the Americas, following pathways much different from those of dogs in Europe and Asia. New World dogs have been viewed as sacred and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300069642
• ISBN13: 9780300069648
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

We prefer edible anthropologists.

This is another boonie dog book review by Wolfie and Kansas. "A History of Dogs in the Early Americas" is an anthropological survey by Marion Schwartz, a research assistant at Yale. Despite numerous illustrations, this book is written more for academics than for dog lovers. One chapter, entitled "The Edible Dog", is particularly frightening.Other portions of this book, such as the sections noting the key roles played by dogs in creation myths, are inspirational. On the whole, though, the sections on dogs as cuisine and dogs as ritual sacrifices leave us with the perhaps politically incorrect impression that, puppy mills and leash laws notwithstanding, the Conquest did more good than harm for caninekind.