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Author Wallen, Martin, author.

Title Whose dog are you? : the technology of dog breeds and the aesthetics of modern human-canine relations / Martin Wallen.

Publication Info. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2017]
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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  636.71 WALLEN    Check Shelf
Description x, 172 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Series The animal turn
Animal turn.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index.
Contents 1. Legal and legible : breed regulation in law and science -- 2. The modern landscape of sport : representations of the foxhound -- 3. Signifying dogs : popularized breeds in the romances of Walter Scott -- 4. Cynical friendships : anthro-canine relations today.
Summary "The intriguing question in the title comes from an inscription on the collar of a dog Alexander Pope gave to the Prince of Wales. When Pope wrote the famous couplet "I am his Highness' Dog at Kew, / Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are You?" the question was received as an expression of loyalty. That was an era before there were dog breeds and, not coincidentally, before people were generally believed to develop affectionate bonds with dogs. This interdisciplinary study focuses on the development of dog breeds in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Beginning with the Foxhound - the first modern breed - it examines the aesthetic, political, and technological forces that generate modern human-canine relations. These forces have colluded over the past two hundred years to impose narrow descriptions of human-canine relations and to shape the dogs physically into acceptable and recognizable breeds. The largest question in animal studies today - how alterity affects human-animal relations - cannot fully be considered until the two approaches to this question are understood as complements of one another: one beginning from aesthetics, the other from technology. Most of all, the book asks if we can engage with dogs in ways that allow them to remain dogs."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Dogs -- Breeding.
Dog breeds.
Human-animal relationships.
Foxhounds.
Dog breeds. (OCoLC)fst00896187
Dogs -- Breeding. (OCoLC)fst00896272
Foxhounds. (OCoLC)fst00933497
Human-animal relationships. (OCoLC)fst00963482
ISBN 9781611862584 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1611862582 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781609175405 (electronic book)
9781628953091 (electronic publication)
9781628963090 (kindle)
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