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