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| A History of Dogs in the Early Americas | 
| Author: Marion Schwartz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 832547
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 260
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0300075197
Dewey Decimal Number: 636
EAN: 9780300075199
ASIN: 0300075197
Publication Date: October 11, 1998
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wonderful Survey, Little Depth November 19, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wonderfully researched, Marion Schwartz's book, A History of Dogs in the Early Americas, examines the relationship between dog and master in the pre-Columbian period. Following an anthropologic approach, the book is primarily concerned with dogs as beasts of burden, dogs in cosmology, and dogs as gastronomic delicacy.
Schwartz's text surveys prehistoric archaeology in the Americas, noting occurrences of dogs as grave goods. Schwartz also draws on the accounts of colonial period missionaries and chroniclers who accompanied de Soto and Cortes. Schwartz's scope is overly broad and leaves the reader with repetitious gloss and little interpretation; a more thorough discussion of each early American societies' significance and worldview would lend a deeper understanding of the place of dogs within the culture.
This book may be of interest to the backyard archaeologist; however, its lack of depth and poor organization make it of little use to the serious scholar. Given the book's wholistic nature, it is likely to alienate the general, dog-loving reader.
 We prefer edible anthropologists. January 8, 1998
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
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