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Informal Session: Dogs and Their Humans
Organizers: Roger Ivar Lohmann Canine ways of life and relationships with humans have varied across time and space. Over thousands of years, canids have successively joined far-flung human communities across the Pacific, from Australia to Polynesia. Participants are invited to consider any aspect of dog-human relationships that have occurred in this region. Accounts and analyses of material, behavioral, and attitudinal relationship indicators exhibited by both humans and canines are particularly welcome. One goal of the session is to explore beyond anthropocentric and emic-centric perspectives in cross-species relationships to include the roles and perspectives of the nonhuman ecological and social associates that make up the other half of human-animal relationships. Pre-registered participants will each have a turn to share and discuss their nascent or developing thoughts and materials concerning dog- or dingo-human relationships with an eye to possibly developing written papers for a working session next year. Additional participants and curious explorers of the dog-human complex are welcome! Participants Laurence Carucci (University of Montana) “Going to the Dogs with Enewetak/Ujelang Marshall Islanders.” Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia) “Talking with Dogs on the Arapesh Coast” Peter Dwyer (University of Melbourne) Active Discussant Rick Feinberg (Kent State University) “Dog or Dog-Gone? A View from Three (Almost) Dogless Islands.” Roger Ivar Lohmann (Trent University). “Cultural Differences in Dogs in Central New Guinea” Mac Marshall (University of Iowa) Active Discussant Mark Mosko (Australian National University) “Dogs and divinity: Chiefs as dogs and dogs as chiefs among North Mekeo” Yasmine Musharbash (Australian National University) Active Discussant Patricia Townsend (University at Buffalo) Active Discussant For more information please contact Roger Ivar Lohmann, Trent University, <rogerlohmann@trentu.ca> |