Ethnography of Village Dogs

This ceramic, from the Museo Amparo, is the cover illustration for a special issue of the journal Human Ecology devoted to research on the prehistory, history and contemporary expressions of human-canine mutualism.  Photo: Carlos Varillas. Courtesy Museo Amparo, Collection Museo Amparo.

A word frequency map built from 567 titles of papers in Luis Pacheco-Cobos’ Zotero database on the evolution, behavior and functions of village dogs.  You can find his Research Gate Project Page on dogs here.

Table of Contents, Human Ecology (49(6), 2021), Special Issue on Dogs

Note From the Editor

Special Issue on Dogs – Introduction (Luis Pacheco-Cobos, & Bruce Winterhalder)

Mothering the Orphaned Pup: The Beginning of a Domestication Process in the Upper Palaeolithic (Mietje Germonpré, Martine Van den Broeck, Martina Lázničková-Galetová, Mikhail V. Sablin, & Hervé Bocherens)

Domestication Through Dingo Eyes: An Australian Perspective on Human-Canid Interactions Leading to the Earliest Dogs (Loukas Koungoulos)

Hunters Who Haul with Dogs: Man’s Best-Friend or Woman’s Little Helper? (Karen D. Lupo)

Travois Transport and Field Processing: the Role of Dogs in Intermountain and Plains Food Transport (Martin Hughes Welker)

The Record of Dogs in Traditional Villages of the Mid-Fraser Canyon, British Columbia: Ethnological and Archaeological Evidence (Anna Marie Prentiss, Matthew J. Walsh, Thomas A. Foor, Haley O’Brien, & Hannah S. Cail)

A Re-Assessment of the Role of Dogs (Canis familiaris) in Early Aotearoa New Zealand (Karen Greig, & Richard Walter)

Humans and Dogs of Mountainous Inner Asia: Sensory Collaboration and Personhood (Alex Oehler)

Ethnographic Observations on the Role of Domestic Dogs in the Lowland Tropics of Belize with Emphasis on Crop Protection and Subsistence Hunting (Luis Pacheco-Cobos, & Bruce Winterhalder)

Does Wealth Predict Health Among Dogs in a Protected Area? (Eric J. L. Eisenman, Jeremy M. Koster, Janet E. Foley, & Christine V. Fiorello)