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Centering animals in Latin American history /
This book writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American histories and cultures. The contributors work through the methodological implica...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Writing animal histories / Zeb Tortorici and Martha Few
- The year the people turned into cattle : the end of the world in New Spain, 1558 / León García Garagarza
- Killing locusts in colonial Guatemala / Martha Few
- "In the name of the father and the mother of all dogs" : canine baptisms, weddings, and funerals in Bourbon Mexico / Zeb Tortorici
- From natural history to popular remedy : animals and their medicinal applications among the Kallawaya in colonial Peru / Adam Warren
- Pest to vector : disease, public health, and the challenges of state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1833-1922 / Heather McCrea
- Notes on medicine, culture, and the history of imported monkeys in Puerto Rico / Neel Ahuja
- Animal labor and protection in Cuba : changes in relationships with animals in the nineteenth century / Reinaldo Funes Monzote
- On edge : fur seals and hunters along the Patagonian littoral, 1860-1930 / John Soluri
- Birds and scientists in Brazil : in search of protection, 1894-1938 / Regina Horta Duarte
- Trujillo, the goat : of beasts, men, and politics in the Dominican Republic / Lauren Derby
- Conclusion : loving, being, and killing animals / Neil L. Whitehead.