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  1. Title page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of illustrations
  5. Notes on contributors
  6. Introduction: Latin America and the Caribbean’s more-than-human pasts
    1. Notes
    2. References
  7. 1. Performative objects: Konduri iconography as a window into precolonial Amazonian ontologies
    1. The ethnological study of perception and other modes of figuration
    2. A perspectivist iconography: motifs, attributes, relevance and visual themes
    3. Konduri visual strategies: alternation and anatropy
    4. An iconography of invisible beings
    5. Conclusion
    6. Notes
    7. References
  8. 2. Under a weak sun at the southern rim of South America (1540–1650)
    1. The smoking gun of the LIA in southern South America
    2. The coming of the Maunder Minimum
    3. Conclusion
    4. Notes
    5. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  9. 3. Extreme weather in New Spain and Guatemala: the Great Drought (1768–73)
    1. The climate and its adverse effects
    2. The ‘mother of all evils’
    3. Drought and crisis
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  10. 4. Water labour: urban metabolism, energy and rivers in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    1. Carrying energy and matter into the city
    2. Transformations within the river/urban system
    3. Effluents, waste and products leave the river/urban system
    4. The need for more rivers
    5. Conclusion
    6. Notes
    7. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  11. 5. Forjadores de la nación: rethinking the role of earthquakes in Chilean history
    1. Earthquakes in (traditional) Chilean history
    2. Not God but earthquakes (1810–1906)
    3. The earthquake’s agenda (1906–2010)
    4. Conclusions: Chile’s 200-year earthquake
    5. Notes
    6. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  12. 6. Human–insect relations in Northeast Brazil’s twentieth-century sugar industry
    1. On history, once more
    2. Back to sugar, humans and insects in Brazil
    3. Human–sugar–insect relations
    4. Notes
    5. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  13. 7. ‘We are the air, the land, the pampas …’: campesino politics and the other-than-human in highland Bolivia 1970–90
    1. Conceptualising the other-than-human in Latin America
    2. Origins of the campesino movement and the rise of the CSUTCB
    3. The CSUTCB and campesino ecological ontologies
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. References
      1. Archival and primary sources
  14. 8. Tongues in trees and sermons in stones: Jason Allen-Paisant’s ecopoetics in Thinking with Trees
    1. Notes
    2. References
      1. Primary sources
  15. 9. Animating the waters, hydrating history: control and contingency in Latin American animations
    1. Abuela Grillo: privatisation and the Water War in Cochabamba
    2. Nimbus, o Caçador de Nuvens: water and developmentalism in Brazil
    3. Indifference, dissolution and contingency
    4. Final remarks
    5. Notes
    6. References
      1. Primary sources
  16. Afterword: more complete stories and better explanations for a renewed worldview
    1. Notes
    2. References
  17. Index

Index

A

  • Ab’Saber, Aziz, 11
  • Abuela Grillo (animation) / Abuela Direjná, 255, 256–9, 261–6
  • Achachilas 210
  • Acosta, José de, 209–10
  • Adorno, Theodor, 254
  • Africans, 1, 6, 7
  • Agrião (Nasturtium officinale), 129
  • Allen-Paisant, Jason, 23, 234–46
  • Althusser, Louis, 265
  • Alves, Marcony Lopes, 40
  • Amazonia
  • cosmology, 39, 42, 44, 54–5
  • Mamaindê / Nambikwara, 47
  • Nhamundá River, 40
  • Pará, Integrated Museum of Óbidos, 39
  • semiotic materialism. See Kohn
  • Trombetas River, 40
  • Yanomami, 54
  • Amunátegui, Miguel, 151, 155
  • Anderson, Tempest, 2
  • animal agency, 14–16, 19, 177–8, 210, 277, 280–81
  • animation and fantasy, 253–4. See also water: environmental animation
  • Annales School, 19
  • ants. See also Carvalho de Cabral
  • Saúvas, 12
  • tropical fire ant / Solenopsis geminata, 14
  • anthropocene, 6, 164, 180, 277
  • Apachita, 210
  • Argentina
  • Buenos Aires and the Pampas, 69, 72, 99
  • Paraná River basin, 73
  • Patagonia, 73
  • Uco Valley, 73
  • Arigho-Stiles, Olivia, 21–2
  • Arrioja Diáz, Luis Alberto, 14, 19
  • Ayllu, 214, 215, 218

B

  • Bachelard, Gaston, 264
  • Bacterium Pseudomonas vasculorum, 184
  • Banana economy, 12
  • Barrio, Paulino del, 155
  • Barros Arana, Diego, 151
  • Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, 240
  • Bello, Andrés, 154
  • Bennett, Jane, 3, 11
  • Berland, Alexander, 13
  • Berriat-Saint-Prix, Charles, 179
  • Big History, 180
  • biocentrism, 257
  • biota, 181
  • Blaser, Mario, 210
  • Boas, Franz, 49
  • Boehmer, Elleke, 235
  • Bolivia
  • agrarian reform, 213, 214–16
  • Águas Del Tunari Co., 258
  • Altiplano, 72, 212
  • Boletín Chitakolla / Collasuyo, 208, 220
  • Cachuela Esperanza hydroelectric plant, 260
  • Cochabamba, 256, 257
  • Campesino movement, 206. See also Indigenous-campesino ontologies cosmologies
  • Chila, Macabeo, 206, 216
  • Comunidad de animadores bolivianos, 256
  • Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia, 205, 219–20
  • Congress of Women Campesinas ‘Bartolina Sisas’, 2013–2014
  • ENOS 1982, 213
  • Flores Santos, Jenaro, 206, 216, 219
  • Katarismo, 22–3, 205, 214
  • Mercado, Víctor, 219
  • Misicuni hydroelectric power plant, 258
  • Movimiento Revolucionario Tupaj Katari (MRTK), 206
  • Third Congress of Peasant Unity, 215, 216, 219
  • Pachakuti, 219
  • Plurinational Constitution, 212
  • Brazil. See also Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, sugar production
  • Atlantic Forest, 181, 183
  • Imperial Fluminense Institute of Agriculture, 184
  • Tijuca, 124, 126, 133
  • deforestation and reforestation, 125
  • rivers in Rio de Janeiro, 17–18, 120, 122, 124, 128
  • Buarque de Holanda, Sérgio, 11
  • Buckle, Henry, 10
  • Burn, Michael, 13

C

  • Caldas Lins Andrade, Raquel, 182
  • Campbell, Bruce, 15
  • Camus, Albert, 149
  • Capilé, Bruno, 18
  • Caribbean cosmologies, 235–6
  • de Carvalho Cabral, Diogo, 14–15, 209
  • Cardich, Augusto, 10
  • Cartoon Network, 254
  • Caste War, 9
  • Cavalcante Gomes, Denise Maria, 21, 22
  • Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 205, 209
  • Chile
  • Almagro, Diego de, 69
  • Anchachire, 68
  • Araucanians, 69, 74
  • Cautin River, 70
  • Chillán 1939 earthquake, 158
  • Concepción 1835 earthquake and tsunami, 153
  • Drake, Francis, 72
  • Dutch invasion, 75
  • La Ligua 1970 earthquake, 161
  • National Emergencies Office (ONEMI), 161, 162
  • Piñera, Sebastián, 162
  • Production Development Corporation (CORFO), 159
  • Reconstruction and Assistantship Corporation (CRA), 159
  • Sheep, 70
  • Smallpox, 70
  • Strait of Magellan, 72
  • Valdivia, Pedro de, 68
  • Valdivia 1960 earthquake, 160
  • Valparaiso 1906 earthquake, 152, 155–6
  • Villarrica volcano, 74
  • Claxton, Robert, 96
  • Climate
  • climate change, 6, 19, 282. See also El Niño
  • Little Ice Age, 18–20. See also Arrioja Diáz, Gascón
  • oscillations, 20, 92. See also Arrioja Diáz, Gascón
  • Columbian exchange. See also Crosby
  • Correa, Sofía, 151
  • Croce, Benedetto, 180–81
  • Condoreno, Javier, 216
  • Cronon, William, 180
  • Crosby, Alfred, 6, 11, 16–17
  • Courlander, Harold, 240

D

  • Darwin, Charles, 10, 153, 163
  • Da Silva, Ignacio ‘Lula’, 260
  • Dean, Warren, 11–12, 17, 125, 180
  • decolonization, 217
  • De la Cadena, Marisol, 211–12, 236–7, 281
  • DeLoughrey, Elizabeth, 241
  • De la Quintana, Liliana, 256
  • dependency theory, 8–9
  • Descola, Philippe, 50
  • Douglas, Bronwen, 208–9
  • Du Bois, W. E. B., 246

E

  • Eakin, Marshall, 7
  • earthquakes, 13, 20–21
  • resistant construction in Chile, 157. See also Gil
  • Ecopoetics, 23, 233
  • ecosophic knowledge, 237
  • Endfield, Georgina, 13
  • Engels, Frederik, 119
  • El Niño (ENSO), 18, 22, 71, 72, 73, 92
  • entomologists, 190
  • Entrevista com o Morcego (Interview with the Bat) (animation), 255
  • environment
  • animation, 255
  • history, 6, 9, 11–13, 16–17, 180, 276–7
  • extractivism, 257

F

  • Ferreira Filho, Marcelo Marques 17
  • Few, Martha, 14
  • Florescano, Enrique, 109
  • Florida, 72, 99
  • Foltz, Richard C., 180
  • Fontes Hydroelectric Power Plant, 134–5
  • Freyre, Gilberto, 10, 181
  • Frozen (animation), 261
  • Fudge, Érica, 208
  • fungal epidemic, 17
  • Colletotrichum falcatum, 187

G

  • Galeano, Eduardo, 8
  • Galindo, Ignacio, 95
  • Gallini, Stephania, 9
  • García Acosta, Virginia, 96
  • García Márquez, Gabriel, 149, 163
  • Gascón, Margarita, 13
  • Gil, Magdalena, 20–21
  • Gobat, Michel, 7
  • Graham, Maria, 128
  • Great American Biotic Interchange, 5
  • Guanabara Bay, 127
  • Guapindaia, Vera Lúcia Calandrini, 40
  • Guatemala, 2, 14, 19
  • late colonial period droughts, 91–107
  • Gudynas, Eduardo, 179
  • Guevara, Álvaro, 95

H

  • Haraway, Donna, 209, 253–4
  • Harris, Wilson, 233–4
  • Hendy, Érica J., 95
  • Hilbert, Peter Paul, Klaus, 40, 43
  • Hoffman, Suzanna, 148
  • Howell, Philip, 16, 210
  • hurricanes, 13–20. See also Endfield, Johnson, Perez, Schwartz
  • Hurtado, Javier, 214

I

  • Imbach, Pablo, 95
  • Imperialism, 233, 241
  • Indianismo / Indigenismo. See also Bolivia: Katarismo, Roel Pineda
  • Indigenous people
  • Amazonian, 21
  • Aymará, 21–2, 206, 207
  • Ayoreo, 256, 261
  • Caribbean, 2–3, 233
  • Maya, 2, 95
  • Indigenous-campesino ontologies / cosmologies, 210–11, 2016, 220
  • ‘buen vivir’ / ‘suma qamaña’, 212, 257
  • Pachamama / Mother Earth, 212, 218–19, 220, 221, 257
  • Reciprocity, 217–18
  • Ingold, Tim, 50, 239
  • insects. See also ants
  • classification / Georg Markgraf / Willem Piso, 182
  • caterpillar asfura canna (Procera saccharipha-gus), 184
  • Cochineal (Dactylopius), 184
  • cockroaches, 185
  • control, 186, 191–2
  • Embira [family Thymelaeaceae], 186. See also control
  • froghoppers, 190, 191
  • Guirapeacoca / pão de galinha / Ligyrus fossator, 182, 186
  • interactions with humans, 192
  • lice, 185
  • Podalgus humilis, 186
  • termites, 187
  • vital cycle, 186–7

J

  • Jácome, Camila, 40
  • Jamestown, 72
  • Johnson, Sherry, 13

K

  • Knight, Jr., Vernon, 50
  • Kohn, Eduardo, 46
  • Kolozova, Katerina, 262
  • Konduri ceramic
  • Anatropy and alternation, 47, 51
  • eye, 47, 51
  • headdresses, 43, 50, 52, 53
  • iconography, 21
  • mouth, 47, 52
  • nose, 43, 51–53
  • zoo anthropomorphism, 42, 43, 45, 49–50, 52, 54, 56
  • Koster, Henry, 182
  • Krauss, Alois, 184–5
  • Kubler, George, 50

L

  • laboring landscapes, 181
  • Lagrou, Els, 51, 55
  • Lapis Lazuli (animation character), 260, 264
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • as a region, 5, 8, 275
  • Latour, Bruno, 18, 211
  • Leal, Claudia, 9
  • LeCain, Timothy, 278
  • Leff, Enrique, 181
  • Le Roi Ladurie, Emmanuel, 65
  • Linton, Jamie, 255
  • Ljungqvist, Fredrik, 66
  • Lisbon earthquake (1755), 146
  • Little Ice Age, 66–8, 91. See also Arrioja Diáz, Gascón
  • Lloyd, Christopher, 15
  • locusts, 14, 91, 101

M

  • McNeish, John, 217
  • McNeill, John, 280
  • Maldá and Dalton Oscillations, 91
  • Manns, Patricio, 150
  • Marquardt, Steve, 12
  • Martí, José, 8
  • Martinez de Irala, Domingo ,69
  • Martinique, 1–2, 14
  • Martland, Samuel, 151–2
  • Maunder Minimum, 66, 73–4
  • Marx, Karl, 119, 121
  • McNeill, John, 7
  • Medinaceli, Benedicto, 7
  • Mellafé, Rolando, 149, 150, 164
  • Meillassoux, Quentin, 265
  • Meller, Patricio, 151
  • Melville, Elinor, 11
  • Merchant, Carolyn, 259
  • Mexico, 11, 19
  • late colonial period droughts, 91–107
  • agriculture / milpa, 95, 101–2
  • religious ceremonies, 103
  • hunger, 104–7
  • Miller, Shawn W., 12–13
  • Mistral, Gabriela, 149
  • Molina del Villar, América, 96
  • Montesuss de Ballore, Fernand de, 157
  • Morales, Evo, 212
  • Morales, Victor, 219
  • Moreira, Carlos, 186
  • Mulcahy, Matthew, 14, 182
  • Murra, John, 10. See also Peru’s Andean vertical zonification

N

  • Neotropics, 4–5, 68
  • Nimbus, the Cloud Hunter (animation), 255, 259–63, 265–6

O

  • O’Brien, Adam, 254
  • O Diário da Terra (animation), 255
  • Odum, Eugene, 122
  • Oliver-Smith, Anthony, 148
  • Onetto, Mauricio, 149
  • Osório de Andrade, Gilberto, 181–2

P

  • Pacific Plains and the Central American Dry Corridor (CADC), 91
  • Pádua, José Augusto, 9
  • Parker, Geoffrey, 15
  • Partido Nacional (Chile), 156
  • Pérez, Louis A., 13, 18, 20
  • Pérez Zevallo, Manuel, 96
  • Pernambuco
  • Agricultural Entomology Laboratory of the National Museum, 186
  • Agriculture Auxiliary Society, 185
  • Association of Agricultural Engineers of the Northeast, 188
  • Amaragi Plantation, 190
  • Cachoeirinha Plantation, 185
  • Caminha Filho, Adrião, 185
  • Clóvis de Andrade, José, 188
  • Commission to Combat Sugarcane Pests, 188
  • Diario de Pernambuco, 185, 188
  • Institute of Agronomic Research, 190
  • Northeast Sugar Foundation, 190
  • Pereira da Silva, Abdon, 188
  • Pitangueira Plantation, 186
  • plague, 187
  • Pumatizinho Plantation, 190
  • Special Group for the Rationalisation of the Northeastern Sugar Industry, 190
  • Sugar Suppliers Association, 190
  • Sugar Study Group, 190
  • Superintendency for the Development of the Northeast, 190
  • Penone, Giuseppe, 238
  • Peru’s Andean vertical zonification, 10
  • postcolonialism, 235, 241
  • Pretel, David, 9

Q

  • Quechua, 207–8

R

  • Ramiel, Evelyn, 255–6
  • Ramírez Vega, María Dolores, 19
  • Ricardo, Cassiano, 10
  • Rio de Janeiro
  • City Improvements Company, 131–3
  • Public Health Policy, 126–7
  • Riquelme, Alfredo, 150
  • Roanoke Island, 72
  • Roel Pineda, Virgilio, 220
  • Romero, Sylvio, 10
  • Rousseff, Dilma, 260
  • Russell Wallace, Alfred, 5

S

  • Saint Mary Parish AME Church (Jamaica), 244–5
  • Santos, Milton, 4
  • Schwartz, Stuart, 3, 14, 182
  • Scott Coleman, Anita, 244–5
  • Sedrez, Lise, 18
  • Seismological Centre (CSN, Chile), 157
  • Severi, Carlo, 47, 55
  • Sewell, William H., 148
  • shamanism / animism, 40, 42–3, 52
  • Shaw, Gary, 277
  • Silva, Bárbara, 150
  • Silveira, Maria Laura, 4
  • Simpson, George, 4, 6
  • slave trade, 234
  • Smith Flett, John, 2
  • Soluri, John, 9
  • Sousa Mello Netto, Ladislau de, 184
  • Stengers, Isabelle, 211
  • Steven Universe, 254–5, 260, 264
  • Stobart, Henry, 217
  • St. Vincent (island)
  • Chateaubelair, 1–2
  • Kingstown, 1–2
  • St. Pierre, 2
  • Owia, 1
  • sugar production
  • Brazil, 10, 17, 177, 181, 186
  • Caribbean basin, 182, 183. See also Martinique
  • Cayenne cane, 183
  • Mateiga cane, 185
  • Usinas, 183

T

  • Talca 1928 (earthquake), 157
  • Tilly, Charles, 156
  • Tinguá Mountains, 134
  • Torres Caicedo, José María, 7
  • Tortorici, Zeb, 14
  • Tree, 236–47. See also Allen-Paisant
  • Thinking with Trees, 234
  • Troll, Carl, 10

U

  • urban metabolism, 119, 125–7, 130

V

  • Vasques Vital, André, 23, 209
  • Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamin, 9, 151
  • Vidal de la Blache, Paul, 4, 7
  • Vidal de Oliveira, Luisa, 21, 22
  • viruses
  • mosaic, 185–6
  • Office against Mosaic, 185
  • Viveros de Castro, Eduardo, 45, 46, 54, 237
  • Vizioli, José, 186
  • Vodou / Hoodoo, 239–40
  • volcanos
  • La Pelée, 2
  • La Soufrière, 1–2, 24
  • Santa María, 2
  • Central America, 92
  • von Humboldt, Alexander, 5, 10

W

  • Wai Wai, Jaime Xamen, 40
  • Walcott, Derek, 242
  • Walt Disney Studio, 255–6
  • water
  • agency, 255, 265, 280
  • behaviour / indifference, dissolution and contingency, 261–2, 266
  • environmental animation, 23, 265
  • exploitation and management, 256, 257–8, 266
  • Water War (Cochabamba), 263
  • weather, 71, 73, 75, 92, 101
  • proxy indicators, 66, 67, 71, 72–3, 93–4, 101–2
  • Weber, Max, 146
  • White, Richard, 18, 276
  • William, Caroline A., 95
  • Wilcox, Robert, 281
  • Williams, Roger, 191
  • Worster, Donald, 16–17

Y

  • Yampara, Simon, 217
  • yellow fever, 6, 134, 280

Z

  • Zafreros, 215
  • Zinn, Jens, 146

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