Canines in Australian Aboriginal society have turned out to be a considerable puzzle to anthropology.The role and significance of dogs, and traditionally dingoes, in this soci ety had previously been so taken for granted as to be beyond reasonable doubt.In recent years, however, a lively, though sometimes 'dogged', debate has developed that demonstrates otherwise.The debate is fired by more or less radical departures from the economic-utilitarian perspective that attributes to canines a decisive usefulness in man's food quest.Indeed this is usually seen as the primary reason for the animal's domestication (Kolig 1978: 84).
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