Perilous beasts : Mexican necropolitics, animal deaths, and blood sports, 1870-1920 /
In "Perilous Beasts" Stephen B. Neufeld explains how and why Mexicans accepted animal death as a part of daily human life between 1870 and 1920. Whether with casual indifference or with roaring cheers, the death of animals became a feature of the emerging liberal and capitalist society. &q...
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2026].
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| Series: | Dialogos series.
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Table of Contents:
- The Sad Repugnant Spectacle: Street Dogs and Public Health in the Killer City
- Lurking in the Outskirts: Great Separations and Visible Death
- Birth of the Fanático: Cultural Takes on the Bullfight Audience
- Owners and Haters: Capitalism and Activism in the Bullring Business
- Dancing with Bulls: Gender and the Porfirian Bullfighter
- Stalking the Modern: Sportsmen, Wild Beasts, and Conservation in Mexico
- Imperial Huntsmen and Missionaries of Death: Colonizing Practices, Indigenous Ways, and Symbolic Big Game.