Table of Contents
Telling Stories of Co-Domestication and Cooperation, an Introduction Robert P. Wishart
Domestication and the Embodied Human-Dog Relationship: Archaeological Perspectives from Siberia Robert Losey, Tatiana Nomokonova, Lacey Fleming, Katherine Latham, and Lesley Harrington
Hunters in their own right: Perspectival sharing in Soiot hunters and their dogs Alexander C. Oehler
Dogs, reindeer and humans in Siberia: Threefold synergetic in the northern Landscape Vladimir Davydov and Konstantine Klokov
Northern Relations: People, Sled Dogs and Salmon in Kamchatka (Russian Far East) Lisa Strecker
The Archaeology of Human–Dog Relations in Northwest Alaska Erica Hill
An ethnohistory of dogs in the Mackenzie Basin (western Subarctic) Patricia A. McCormack
The Police and Dogs during the early patrol years in the Western Canadian Sub-Arctic: An inter-species colonial cooperation? Robert P. Wishart
Threatening the Fantasy of an Arctic Welfare State: Canada, Quebec and Inuit Dogs in Qikiqtaaluk and Nunavik between 1957 and 1968 Francis Lévesque
‘Hard Times Are Coming’: Indeterminacy, Prophecies, Apocalypse, and Dogs Jan Peter L. Loovers
Dogs among Others: Inughuit Companions in Northwest Greenland Kirsten Hastrup
Prehistory of dogs in Fennoscandia – a review Suvi Viranta and Kristiina Mannermaa
“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 Nuccio Mazzullo
Dogs in Saapmi: From Competiton to Collaboration to Cooperation to Now Myrdene Anderson
Conclusion - Dogs in the North Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Robert J. Losey, Robert Wishart
Editor(s) Bio
Robert J. Losey is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada. His current research involves the study of humans’ relationships with dogs as evidenced in the archaeology of Eastern Russia.
Robert P. Wishart is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. His current research involves ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and history of science research focused on colonialism and human–animal relations in the Canadian North.
Jan Peter Laurens Loovers is Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. As part of the ERC Arctic Domus Project, his research concerns the relationships between humans, dogs, fish, and caribou in the Canadian circumpolar North and the history of domestication in the Arctic.