{"product_id":"llamas-beyond-the-andes-9781477328408","title":"Llamas beyond the Andes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Camelids are vital to the cultures and economies of the Andes. The animals have also been at the heart of ecological and social catastrophe: Europeans overhunted wild vicuña and guanaco and imposed husbandry and breeding practices that decimated llama and alpaca flocks that had been successfully tended by Indigenous peoples for generations. Yet the colonial encounter with these animals was not limited to the New World.\u003ci\u003e Llamas beyond the Andes\u003c\/i\u003e tells the five-hundred-year history of animals removed from their native habitats and transported overseas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Initially Europeans prized camelids for the bezoar stones found in their guts: boluses of ingested matter that were thought to have curative powers. Then the animals themselves were shipped abroad as exotica. As Europeans and US Americans came to recognize the economic value of camelids, new questions emerged: What would these novel sources of protein and fiber mean for the sheep industry? And how best to cultivate \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. “The Most Interesting Animals in the World”: Reconstructing Histories of Andean Camelids in Transoceanic Contact Zones \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 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 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Exploring the Body-Interior: Autopsy in Colonial Camelid Contact Zones \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. From Curiosity to Commodity: Early Efforts to Ship Living Camelids to Europe \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. The Science of Acclimatization: Llamas and Alpacas in Nineteenth-Century France \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. Andean Itineraries of Nineteenth-Century Camelid Science: The Case of Charles Ledger \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 6. Camelids in Australia: The Rise and Fall of Charles Ledger’s Alpaca Ambitions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 7. US Camelid Contact Zones in the Twentieth Century: Authenticity, Exoticism, and Celebrity \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion. The Afterlives of Camelid Contact Zones \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Works Cited \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408965050711,"sku":"9781477328408","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477328408.jpg?v=1730504888","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/llamas-beyond-the-andes-9781477328408","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}