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humanimalia-9976	Gordon, Joan	Running Dogs in Capitalist Japan: Review of Aaron Herald Skabelund, Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World	2013	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1969	74	51	In the nineteenth century, “an age of rampant Darwinism and social Darwinism” (47), Skaeblund notes that since most Japanese dog breeds looked Joan Gordon – Running Dogs in Capitalist Japan 197 “wolfish” and therefore suggested a kind of continuum rather than a clear division between domestic and wild, Westerners found them “deeply unsettling” (48). In a kind of cultural cringe, Japanese elites adopted “civilizationist and scientific racist” language and attitudes to vilify native dog breeds and extol imported ones.	cache/humanimalia-9976.pdf	txt/humanimalia-9976.txt