Llamas beyond the Andes : untold histories of camelids in the modern world / Marcia Stephenson.
"This study is the first book-length work to "identify and address the unexpected role the four species of Andean camelids (llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos) have played in shaping transatlantic relationships among Europeans, criollos, and Indigenous peoples, beginning with the firs...
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. "The most interesting animals in the world" : reconstructing histories of Andean camelids in transoceanic contact zones
- From marvelous antidote to the poison of idolatry : the transatlantic significance of Andean bezoar stones during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
- Autopsy in the colonial camelid contact zone
- From object of curiosity to object of commerce : early efforts to ship living camelids to Europe
- The science of acclimatization : llamas and alpacas in nineteenth-century France
- Andean itineraries of nineteenth-century camelid science : the case of Charles Ledger
- Camelids in Australia : The rise and fall of Charles Ledger's alpaca ambitions
- U.S. camelid contact zones in the twentieth century : authenticity, exoticism, and celebrity
- Conclusion. The afterlives of camelid contact zones.