A Dog-Eat-Dog Empire: Violence and Affection on the Streets of Ottoman Cairo

摘要: This article analyzes how the political and economic transformation of Ottoman Egypt at turn nineteenth century impacted relationships between humans dogs. Dogs were integral essential social actors in for millennia, but decades around 1800 they came to be set apart from society as useless dangerous sources pollution, disease, annoyance. Thus, first time Egypt’s history, large-scale dog eradication campaigns carried out Cairo countryside. Violence was not only strategy dealing with this changing role dogs Egypt. Another that began develop early would fully emerge later phenomenon interspecies affective relations. In addition offering a history human-dog relations Egypt, Mikhail’s also considers seeming contradiction contemporaneous emergence human violence affection toward