Kohn, How dogs dream : Amazonian natures and the politics of transspecies engagement

Dogs, howe­ver, can­not, under nor­mal cir­cum­stances, unders­tand the full range of human speech. As I indi­ca­ted above, if people want dogs to unders­tand them, they must give dogs hal­lu­ci­no­ge­nic drugs. That is, the Runa must make their dogs into sha­mans so that they can tra­verse the onto­lo­gi­cal boun­da­ries that sepa­rate them from humans