Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Foreword by Erica Fudge ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction Writing Animal Histories 1
6. PART I. Animals, Culture, and Colonialism
7. 1. The Year the People Turned into Cattle: The End of the World in New Spain, 1558 31
8. 2. Killing Locusts in Colonial Guatemala 62
9. 3. ‘‘In the Name of the Father and the Mother of All Dogs’’: Canine Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals in Bourbon Mexico 93
10. PART II. Animals and Medicine, Science and Public Health
11. 4. From Natural History to Popular Remedy: Animals and Their Medicinal Applications among the Kallawaya in Colonial Peru 123
12. 5. Pest to Vector: Disease, Public Health, and the Challenges of State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1833–1922 149
13. 6. Notes on Medicine, Culture, and the History of Imported Monkeys in Puerto Rico 180
14. PART III. The Meanings and Politics of Postcolonial Animals
15. 7. Animal Labor and Protection in Cuba: Changes in Relationships with Animals in the Nineteenth Century 209
16. 8. On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860–1930 243
17. 9. Birds and Scientists in Brazil: In Search of Protection, 1894–1938 270
18. 10. Trujillo, the Goat: Of Beasts, Men, and Politics in the Dominican Republic 302
19. Conclusion Loving, Being, Killing Animals 329
20. Recommended Bibliography 347
21. Contributors 357
22. Index 361