Introduction. “The Most Interesting Animals in the World”: Reconstructing Histories of Andean Camelids in Transoceanic Contact Zones

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction. “The Most Interesting Animals in the World”: Reconstructing Histories of Andean Camelids in Transoceanic Contact Zones 1
5. Chapter 1. From Marvelous Antidote to the Poison of Idolatry: The Transatlantic Significance of Andean Bezoar Stones during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries 25
6. Chapter 2. Exploring the Body-Interior: Autopsy in Colonial Camelid Contact Zones 57
7. Chapter 3. From Curiosity to Commodity: Early Efforts to Ship Living Camelids to Europe 89
8. Chapter 4. The Science of Acclimatization: Llamas and Alpacas in Nineteenth-Century France 125
9. Chapter 5. Andean Itineraries of Nineteenth-Century Camelid Science: The Case of Charles Ledger 165
10. Chapter 6. Camelids in Australia: The Rise and Fall of Charles Ledger’s Alpaca Ambitions 207
11. Chapter 7. US Camelid Contact Zones in the Twentieth Century: Authenticity, Exoticism, and Celebrity 257
12. Conclusion. The Afterlives of Camelid Contact Zones 285
13. Acknowledgments 291
14. Notes 297
15. Works Cited 335
16. Index 363