Martha Few is Associate Professor of Colonial Latin American History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She is the author of Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala.

Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.

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

Martha Few is Associate Professor of Colonial Latin American History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She is the author of Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala.

Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.