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First edition

1 online resource (x, 380 pages)

ISBN 9781477328415 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781477328408 (print)

Print version: Stephenson, Marcia, 1955- Llamas Beyond the Andes : Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World. First edition. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, c2023 x, 380 pages ISBN 9781477328408

Includes index

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.

"This study is the first book-length work to "identify and address the unexpected role the four species of Andean camelids (llamas, alpacas, vicun~as, and guanacos) have played in shaping transatlantic relationships among Europeans, criollos, and Indigenous peoples, beginning with the first contact of the Spanish in the sixteenth century and extending through the mid-twentieth century." The author studies the animals’ natural histories in their native environments and foregrounds their un-natural histories when they are hunted, captured, transported overseas, exhibited, and dissected. Her analysis shows that throughout the five centuries in question, camelid bodies constitute a surprising meeting point around which the discourses of medicine, religion, the decorative arts, visual aesthetics, travel literature, and instrumental science converge. This convergence appears to have almost no other counterparts in New World flora and fauna, making it a particularly rich area for inquiry about what happens in such "contact zones," in this case, from the Andes to Europe, Australia, and the U.S. and involving the broadest possible cast of characters, from herders to aristocrats and royalty"-- Provided by publisher..

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