Centering Animals in Latin American History : Writing Animals into Latin American History

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Few, Martha.

Contributor:

Tortorici , Zeb.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Latin America--History.

Animals--Symbolic aspects--Latin America.

Human-animal relationships--Latin America.

Animals--History--Latin America.

Animals.

Human-animal relationships--Symbolic aspects--Latin America.

Human-animal relationships.

Animals--Latin America.

Local Subjects:

Animals--Latin America--History.

Animals--Symbolic aspects--Latin America.

Human-animal relationships--Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays examining Latin American cultural history through a focus on animals and their vital but often ignored roles in colonization and nation-building.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword by Erica Fudge; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing Animal Histories, Zeb Tortorica and Martha Few; Part I. Animals, Culture, and Colonialism; 1. The Year the People Turned into Cattle: The End of the World in New Spain, 1558, Leon Garcia Garagarza; 2. Killing Locusts in Colonial Guatemala, Martha Few; 3. ''In the Name of the Father and the Mother of All Dogs'': Canine Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals in Bourbon Mexico, Zeb Tortorici; Part II. Animals and Medicine, Science and Public Health

4. From Natural History to Popular Remedy: Animals and Their Medicinal Applications among the Kallawaya in Colonial Peru, Adam Warren5. Pest to Vector: Disease, Public Health, and the Challenges of State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1833-1922, Heather McCrea; 6. Notes on Medicine, Culture, and the History of Imported Monkeys in Puerto Rico, Neel Ahuja; Part III. The Meanings and Politics of Postcolonial Animals; 7. Animal Labor and Protection in Cuba: Changes in Relationships with Animals in the Nineteenth Century, Reinaldo Funes Monzote

8. On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860-1930, John Soluri9. Birds and Scientists in Brazil: In Search of Protection, 1894-1938, Regina Horta Duarte; 10. Trujillo, the Goat: Of Beasts, Men, and Politics in the Dominican Republic, Lauren Derby; Conclusion: Loving, Being, Killing Animals, Neil L. Whitehead; Recommended Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9780822397595

0822397595

OCLC:

846465549