Llamas Beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World

by Marcia Stephenson

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 vicu a 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. Llamas beyond the Andes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477328408
• ISBN13: 9781477328408
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"