Genealogy of Obedience: Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s

by Justyna Wlodarczyk and Justyna Wodarczyk

In Genealogy of Obedience Justyna Wlodarczyk provides a long overdue look at the history of companion dog training methods in North America since the mid-nineteenth century, when the market of popular training handbooks emerged. Wlodarczyk argues that changes in the functions and goals of dog training are entangled in bigger cultural discourses; with a particular focus on how animal training has served as a field for playing out anxieties related...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004380280
• ISBN13: 9789004380288
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"