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Schwartz, a research assistant in physical anthropology at Yale, presents here a meticulously documented study of the relationship between aboriginal peoples and dogs in the Americas from prehistory through European contact. Borrowing from genetics, archaeology, and tribal myth, the author traces the development of a variety of indigenous canine breeds and their role in the daily life of Native American tribes of both continents, including a treatment of working dogs, the eating of dog meat, dogs in the afterlife, and dogs in folk art. Schwartz has included detailed footnotes, maps, a chronology, and a wealth of reproductions and renderings of original art. This comprehensive mosaic of facts from sociology, biology, history, and legend is an academic yet readable book for scholars and others with a strong interest in the history of dogs in early civilizations or the ethnohistory of the Americas.?Valerie Diamond, Thurgood Marshall Law Lib., Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Law, Baltimore
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The New York Times Book Review, Timothy Foote
... A fascinating, scholarly mishmash, with extraordinary drawings by Susan Hochgraf, about the way tribes, nations and peoples dealt with a portrayed man's best friend up to and just after the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500's....
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Schwartz, a research assistant in physical anthropology at Yale, presents here a meticulously documented study of the relationship between aboriginal peoples and dogs in the Americas from prehistory through European contact. Borrowing from genetics, archaeology, and tribal myth, the author traces the development of a variety of indigenous canine breeds and their role in the daily life of Native American tribes of both continents, including a treatment of working dogs, the eating of dog meat, dogs in the afterlife, and dogs in folk art. Schwartz has included detailed footnotes, maps, a chronology, and a wealth of reproductions and renderings of original art. This comprehensive mosaic of facts from sociology, biology, history, and legend is an academic yet readable book for scholars and others with a strong interest in the history of dogs in early civilizations or the ethnohistory of the Americas.?Valerie Diamond, Thurgood Marshall Law Lib., Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Law, Baltimore
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The New York Times Book Review, Timothy Foote
... A fascinating, scholarly mishmash, with extraordinary drawings by Susan Hochgraf, about the way tribes, nations and peoples dealt with a portrayed man's best friend up to and just after the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500's....
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