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The Animals of Spain
An Introduction to Imperial Perceptions and Human Interaction with Other Animals, 1492-1826
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Writings from 1492 to 1826 reveal that the history of animals in the Spanish empire transcended the bullfight. The early modern Spanish empire was shaped by its animal actors, and authors from Cervantes to the local officials who wrote the relaciones geográficas were aware of this. Nonhuman animals provided food, clothing, labor, entertainment and companionship. Functioning as allegories of human behavior, nonhuman animals were perceived by Spanish and Amerindian authors alike as bearing some relationship to humans. On occasion, they even were appreciated as unique and fascinating beings. Through empirical observation and metaphor, some in the Spanish empire saw themselves as related in some way to other animals, recognizing, before Darwin, a "difference in degree rather than kind."
Abel A. Alves, Ph.D. (1990) in History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is Associate Professor of History at Ball State University. His publications include the book Brutality and Benevolence: Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico (1996).
I) Animals in the Atlantic World: Perceptions and Associationsâ¦.
II) Through the Prism of Human Perception: Spanish Intellectuals Write about Other Sentient Beingsâ¦.
III) Valued Animals and Animal Valuesâ¦.
IV) Spirit Guides to Hell? Shape-Shifting and the Power of Animals Invertedâ¦.
V) San MartÃnâs Companion Animals: Nature Domesticated and Blessedâ¦.
VI) The Animals of Spain: Continuity and Changeâ¦.
II) Through the Prism of Human Perception: Spanish Intellectuals Write about Other Sentient Beingsâ¦.
III) Valued Animals and Animal Valuesâ¦.
IV) Spirit Guides to Hell? Shape-Shifting and the Power of Animals Invertedâ¦.
V) San MartÃnâs Companion Animals: Nature Domesticated and Blessedâ¦.
VI) The Animals of Spain: Continuity and Changeâ¦.
All those interested in the early modern Spanish empire, the application of evolutionary biology to human behavior, and the interaction of humans with other animals.