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Dogs and People in Social, Working, Economic or Symbolic Interaction, EPUB eBook

Dogs and People in Social, Working, Economic or Symbolic Interaction EPUB

Part of the Proceedings of the 9th ICAZ Conference series

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This, the final title to be published from the sessions of the 2002 ICAZ conference, focuses on the role of man's best friend.

As worker or companion, the dog has enjoyed a unique relationship with its human master, and the depth and variety of the papers in this fascinating collection is a testament to the interest that this symbiotic arrangement holds for many scholars working in archaeology today.

The book covers an eclectic range of subjects, such as considering dogs as animals of sacrifice and animal components of ancient and modern religious ritual and practice; dogs as human companions subject to loving care, visual/symbolic representation, deliberate or accidental breed manipulation; as working dogs; and finally as co-inhabitors of human dwelling paces and co-consumers of human food resources.

While many of the papers in this volume have a predominant focus, they also demonstrate that the relationships between humans and dogs are rarely , if ever singular or simple.

Instead these relationships are complex, often combining the practical, the ideological and the symbolic.

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