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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

Contents

  1. List of illustrations
  2. Notes on contributors
  3. Introduction: Latin America and the Caribbean’s more-than-human pasts
  4. Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, André Vasques Vital and Margarita Gascón
  5. Notes
  6. References
  7. 1. Performative objects: Konduri iconography as a window into precolonial Amazonian ontologies
  8. Luisa Vidal de Oliveira and Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes
  9. The ethnological study of perception and other modes of figuration
  10. A perspectivist iconography: motifs, attributes, relevance and visual themes
  11. Konduri visual strategies: alternation and anatropy
  12. An iconography of invisible beings
  13. Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. 2. Under a weak sun at the southern rim of South America (1540–1650)
  17. Margarita Gascón
  18. The smoking gun of the LIA in southern South America
  19. The coming of the Maunder Minimum
  20. Conclusion
  21. Notes
  22. References
  23. Archival and primary sources
  24. 3. Extreme weather in New Spain and Guatemala: the Great Drought (1768–73)
  25. Luis Alberto Arrioja Díaz Viruell and María Dolores Ramírez Vega
  26. The climate and its adverse effects
  27. The ‘mother of all evils’
  28. Drought and crisis
  29. Conclusion
  30. Notes
  31. References
  32. Archival and primary sources
  33. 4. Water labour: urban metabolism, energy and rivers in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  34. Bruno Capilé and Lise Fernanda Sedrez
  35. Carrying energy and matter into the city
  36. Transformations within the river/urban system
  37. Effluents, waste and products leave the river/urban system
  38. The need for more rivers
  39. Conclusion
  40. Notes
  41. References
  42. Archival and primary sources
  43. 5. Forjadores de la nación: rethinking the role of earthquakes in Chilean history
  44. Magdalena Gil
  45. Earthquakes in (traditional) Chilean history
  46. Not God but earthquakes (1810–1906)
  47. The earthquake’s agenda (1906–2010)
  48. Conclusions: Chile’s 200-year earthquake
  49. Notes
  50. References
  51. Archival and primary sources
  52. 6. Human–insect relations in Northeast Brazil’s twentieth-century sugar industry
  53. José Marcelo Marques Ferreira Filho
  54. On history, once more
  55. Back to sugar, humans and insects in Brazil
  56. Human–sugar–insect relations
  57. Notes
  58. References
  59. Archival and primary sources
  60. 7. ‘We are the air, the land, the pampas …’: campesino politics and the other-than-human in highland Bolivia 1970–90
  61. Olivia Arigho-Stiles
  62. Conceptualising the other-than-human in Latin America
  63. Origins of the campesino movement and the rise of the CSUTCB
  64. The CSUTCB and campesino ecological ontologies
  65. Conclusion
  66. Notes
  67. References
  68. Archival and primary sources
  69. 8. Tongues in trees and sermons in stones: Jason Allen-Paisant’s ecopoetics in Thinking with Trees
  70. Hannah Regis
  71. Notes
  72. References
  73. Primary sources
  74. 9. Animating the waters, hydrating history: control and contingency in Latin American animations
  75. André Vasques Vital
  76. Abuela Grillo: privatisation and the Water War in Cochabamba
  77. Nimbus, o Caçador de Nuvens: water and developmentalism in Brazil
  78. Indifference, dissolution and contingency
  79. Final remarks
  80. Notes
  81. References
  82. Primary sources
  83. Afterword: more complete stories and better explanations for a renewed worldview
  84. Claudia Leal
  85. Notes
  86. References
  87. Index

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