An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
* List of Abbreviations * Introduction. “The Most Interesting Animals in the World”: Reconstructing Histories of Andean Camelids in Transoceanic Contact Zones * 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 * Chapter 2. Exploring the Body-Interior: Autopsy in Colonial Camelid Contact Zones * Chapter 3. From Curiosity to Commodity: Early Efforts to Ship Living Camelids to Europe * Chapter 4. The Science of Acclimatization: Llamas and Alpacas in Nineteenth-Century France * Chapter 5. Andean Itineraries of Nineteenth-Century Camelid Science: The Case of Charles Ledger * Chapter 6. Camelids in Australia: The Rise and Fall of Charles Ledger’s Alpaca Ambitions * Chapter 7. US Camelid Contact Zones in the Twentieth Century: Authenticity, Exoticism, and Celebrity * Conclusion. The Afterlives of Camelid Contact Zones * Acknowledgments * Notes * Works Cited * Index
* List of Abbreviations * Introduction. “The Most Interesting Animals in the World”: Reconstructing Histories of Andean Camelids in Transoceanic Contact Zones * 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 * Chapter 2. Exploring the Body-Interior: Autopsy in Colonial Camelid Contact Zones * Chapter 3. From Curiosity to Commodity: Early Efforts to Ship Living Camelids to Europe * Chapter 4. The Science of Acclimatization: Llamas and Alpacas in Nineteenth-Century France * Chapter 5. Andean Itineraries of Nineteenth-Century Camelid Science: The Case of Charles Ledger * Chapter 6. Camelids in Australia: The Rise and Fall of Charles Ledger’s Alpaca Ambitions * Chapter 7. US Camelid Contact Zones in the Twentieth Century: Authenticity, Exoticism, and Celebrity * Conclusion. The Afterlives of Camelid Contact Zones * Acknowledgments * Notes * Works Cited * Index
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