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 / León García Garagarza  31

2. Killing Locusts in Colonial Guatemala / Martha Few  62

3. "In 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 Yucatán, 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

Zeb Tortorici

Martha Few

León García Garagarza

Adam Warren

Heather McCrea

Neel Ahuja

Reinaldo Funes Monzote

John Soluri

Regina Horta Duarte

Lauren Derby

Neil L. Whitehead

"Centering Animals in Latin American History breaks new ground. In intellectually sophisticated essays, the contributors suggest that by providing a new history of animals, we cannot only understand more about the human/animal divide but also break down the category of the human, interrogate nature, and analyze the form in which the past becomes history. In this way, this collection writes animals into Latin American history."—Pete Sigal, author of The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture

"In this engaging and generative collection of essays, editors Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici take us beyond the implications of the Columbian Exchange to show how a wide range of animals—including locusts, cattle, monkeys, fur seals, llamas, birds, and goats—actively shaped Latin American history and culture. Centering Animals in Latin American History does more than just restore animals to visibility while examining human ideas about and practices toward nonhuman animals: it makes it impossible to look at Latin American history without taking into consideration the nonhuman animals that materially and symbolically cocreated our world."—Brett Mizelle, author of Pig

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