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