Centering Animals in Latin American History

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Foreword / Erica Fudge ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Writing Animal Histories / Zeb Tortorici and Martha Few 1 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 31 2. Killing Locusts in Colonial Guatemala / Martha Few 62 3. the Name of the Father and the Mother of All Dogs: Canine Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals in Bourbon Mexico / Zeb Tortorici 93 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 Warren 123 5. Pest to Vector: Disease, Public Health, and the Challenges of State-Building in Yucatan, Mexico, 1833-1922 / Heather McCrea 149 6. Notes on Medicine, Culture, and the History of Imported Monkeys in Puerto Rico / Neel Ahuja 180 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 Monzete (translated by Alex Hildago and Zeb Tortorici) 209 8. On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860-1930 / John Soluri 243 9. Birds and Scientists in Brazil: In Search of Protection, 1894-1938 / Regina Horta Duarte (translated by Zeb Tortorici and Roger Arthur Cough) 270 10. Trujillo, the Goat: Of Beasts, Men, and Politics in the Dominican Republic / Lauren Derby 302 Conclusion. Loving, Being, Killing Animals / Neil L. Whitehead 329 Recommended Bibliography 347 Contributors 357 Index 361

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