Creatures of fashion : animals, global markets, and the transformation of Patagonia / John Soluri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soluri, John, author.

Series:

Flows, migrations, and exchanges

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal industry--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--History--19th century.

Animal industry.

Animal industry--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--History--20th century.

Animal industry--Political aspects.

Animal industry--Environmental aspects.

Indians of South America--Violence against--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).

Indians of South America.

Animal populations--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--History.

Animal populations.

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--Commerce--History--19th century.

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--Commerce--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]

Summary:

Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. iCreatures of Fashion/i upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region's transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europe’s houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the "end of the world."From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluri's narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on May 22, 2024).

Includes index and bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9798890887511

OCLC:

1428132377

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.