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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neufeld, Stephen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2026].
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.