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abuse
of impoverished populations 182–3
see also gender violence
Ak’abal, Humberto 10, 109–12
Alarcón, Orfa 14, 196
Alva, Bartolomé de 55–7, 60, 64–5
Alvarado, Francisco de 55, 59
Alves, Abel 2, 5, 55, 63
Amazonian Indigenous beliefs see Amazonian under Indigenous beliefs
Andean Indigenous beliefs see Andean under Indigenous beliefs
angel as symbol of neoliberal dynamics 11, 122–37
animal sacrifice 3, 26, 58, 166, 169
see also celestial sacrifice, human sacrifice
animal studies 8–9, 11, 72, 164
animal/human distinction 12, 51–66, 115, 161
animals as symbols
of the way humans and animals shape one another 3
of colonialism 5
of injustice 4
of Otherness 5
of early capitalism 5
of colonial critique 6, 19–33
of colonial relationships of dominance 7, 36–49
of purity of blood 8, 70–81
of repressed Indigeneity 10, 85–98
of illness and societal struggle 11, 138–52
of Amerindian tradition 100–20
of feminist resistance 157–72
of terrestrial and celestial links 51–66
anthropocene 13, 159–60, 168–9, 171
anthropocentrism 104, 177
anthropodenial 9, 12, 27, 55, 164–5, 177–8, 180
see also marginalization, Otherness
anthropomorphism 21, 24
aquarium 89, 90, 92–5, 98
Aridjis, Homero 10, 113–16
Argentina
gauchos 13, 157–72
feminist movements 159, 169, 171
aristocracy 8, 72–6
aventuras de la China Iron, Las (Cabezón Cámara) 13, 157–72
axolotl 10, 85–98
“Axolotl” (Cortázar) 86–98
Barreda, Nicolás de la 59
Bartra, Roger 85, 94–6
beast
becoming of 12, 56–7, 198–9
inner beast 200–3
ontology of 51–4, 178–9
beetle 59–60
Benes, Botero 46–7
bestiary 9, 12–13, 19–33, 39
biopolitics 8–10, 12–13
question of humanity 5–6, 8, 54–5, 59
bullfighting 3, 222
Burkhart, Louise 53, 55, 58
Cabarcas Antequera, Hernando 39
Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela 13, 159, 168
Calderón, Felipe 196
Callejo, Jesús 13
Camacho, Bibiana 14, 196
Cámara Outes, Cristian 52
Castañega, Martín de 60, 63–4
cat 11, 26, 138–52
Catholicism 8
clergy 7
evangelization of the Americas 51–2, 55, 127
Franciscan Order 4, 43, 55, 63–4, 131
hell 22, 56
Indigenous translations of Catechisms 52–66
missionaries 7, 51, 55
mythology 21, 22–3, 25
pedagogy 52–3
religious orders 131
use of animal symbolism 7, 56–7
views on the animal 54
Cela, Camilo José 15, 211, 220, 222–3
celestial sacrifice 58, 85, 129
see also animal sacrifice, human sacrifice
censorship 8, 72, 78, 138, 184
Cervantes, Fernando 62–3
Cervantes, Miguel de 8
animal symbolism 72–81
canine picaresque 160
“gitanilla, La” 71–6
literary innovation 70
novelas ejemplares 71–2
trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, Los 71, 76–8
see also Golden Age under Spain
Childers, William 8, 79
Christianity see Catholicism
chronicle (genre) 6, 19–33, 42
Clément, Édgar 11
climate change 3
colonialism
administration of colonial empire 25–8
allegory of 176–92
colonial discourse 7, 38, 55
coloniality 177
conquistadors 126
decolonization 2, 13, 184–92
explorers 5
subjects 9
Córdova, Juan de 55
Cortázar, Julio 10, 87, 89, 90–1
Covarrubias, Sebastián 24
cow 4, 5, 46–9, 171
Cuadra, Pablo Antonio 10, 111–13
decolonization see colonialism
demon 29, 62, 63
see also devil
Derrida, Jacques 9, 11, 141, 147
devil 6, 22, 55–6, 60, 62–5, 125, 140
see also demon
dictatorship 11, 138, 140, 149
in Argentina 176, 179–92
in Spain 3, 11, 138–40, 143, 148–9, 211, 217–18, 222
resistance to 186
Doctrina christiana en lengua castellana y çapoteca (Fería) 52
dog 4, 43, 46, 48, 57, 97, 141, 160–3, 197, 200, 220–1
double 96–7
dove 222
Echeverría, Esteban 12
ecocentrism 101, 104
ecocriticism 3, 10, 13, 100, 104, 106
Enlightenment, the 5
enrabiado, El 196–200
Enríquez, Mariana 13, 176, 180
Erll, Astrid 11, 149
Etymologies (Seville) 23
extinction 85, 98, 105, 113, 114, 206, 207
fable 24, 25
familia de Pascual Duarte, La (Cela) 220–3
family 93, 125, 139–40, 150, 163–7, 198–9
Fanon, Frantz 9, 14, 177, 182–8
Farris, Nancy 52
“Fausto” (Matute) 139, 141–3, 148–52
Fería, Pedro de 51–2, 54–6, 58, 61
Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo 5
Ferro, Gabo 12, 168
Foucault, Michel 161, 180, 181n.4
fox 26–7, 60, 64, 102
Francis of Assisi, Saint 3
Franco, Francisco 11, 138
free markets 127, 135–6, 196
Freud, Sigmund 10, 87–98, 198
Fuchs, Barbara 70, 75, 80, 81
gender violence 14, 198–9, 211–224
Giorgi, Gabriel 12, 161–5, 187
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 140
Goff, Jacques Le 38n.4
Gossen, Gary 102
Gothic literature 14, 140, 147, 195, 204, 209
Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe (Waman Puma) 6, 19–34
Guimarães Rosa, João 10, 116
Gunnels, Bridgette W. 106
Hawhee, Debra 25
Hernández, José 13, 157
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de 125, 129
Higgs Strickland, Debra 25
Huerta, Gerónimo de 7, 36–49
human sacrifice 58, 181, 206
see also animal sacrifice, celestial sacrifice
human offering see human sacrifice
hunting 42, 100, 116–18, 123, 127, 144, 199, 210, 213
hybridity
in beings 72–81, 178, 184
in texts 24, 40, 117–19
iguana 41–2
illness 11, 58, 85, 138–52
Indigenous beliefs 3
understandings of dichotomies 101, 117
Amazonian
animal souls (tonalli) 100, 102–4, 114, 115
multinaturalism 103–4
mythology 100
perspectivism 100–20
shamanism 100–4, 108
Andean
mythology 6, 25–8, 31
spiritual practices 25, 28, 32–3
Mesoamerican
Chinantec 7, 52, 59
mythology 85
nahualism (nagualism) 10, 102–106, 125–6
nahual (nagual) 11, 100, 122–37
omens 58–62
shamanism 133–4
totemism 125–6
Zapotec 51, 56, 58, 61
Patagonian
machi 170
see also Indigenous translations of Catechisms under Catholicism
Islam 4, 5, 70–2
jaguar 5, 10, 100–20, 134
jaguar y la luna, El (Cuadra) 111–13
Jentsch, Ernst 87–8, 91
Judaism 4, 5, 61, 70–1
Johnson, Carroll 8, 73
“Juan Darién” (Quiroga) 105–8
Kafka, Franz 11, 140–1, 160
Kappler 47
León, Martín de 60
Levinas, Emmanuel 12
libana sermon 52, 58
lion 22, 26, 29, 40
llama 23, 26–7
Lobo (Camacho) 14, 196, 203–8
Lorra Baquio, Francisco de 60
lycanthropy 71, 76, 79, 200
marginalization 8, 71, 81, 138, 168, 178
see also anthropodenial, Otherness
magical realism 90–1
mappamundi 6, 19, 22, 30
Manada, la 14, 211, 213
see also gender violence
maquiladora (tariff and duty–free factories in Mexico) 133, 196
mare 15, 211, 220
Marina (Ruiz Zafón) 11, 138–52
Martín Fierro¸ El (Hernández) 13, 157, 159, 162, 166, 169
Marxism
Gothic 14
Matute, Ana María 11, 138–9
Medeiros, Sérgio 10, 101, 118–19
Mesoamerican Indigenous beliefs see Mesoamerican under Indigenous beliefs
Metamorphoses, The (Ovid) 4
metamorphosis 96, 103, 117–18
Mignolo, Walter 4, 177, 178, 184–5, 190
mind-body dualism 183n.5
Molina, Alonso de 55–6, 60, 65
Moraña, Mabel 196, 198, 200, 209
Morgado García, Arturo 24, 72,
Mexico
attempts to evangelize 51–66
drug trade 11, 123, 124, 132, 133, 135, 200–1, 204–9, 213
mexicanidad (Mexican identity) 129, 130
neoliberalism in 123, 127, 129–30, 134, 196
violence in 196, 203
war on drugs 196
“Meu tio o Iauaretê” (Guimarães Rosa) 116–18
Miñana, Rogelio 8, 80
mirabilia 7, 36–49
monster 5, 12–14, 22, 38, 40, 47
ontology of 178–9, 198
origins in society 80, 176, 196
as symbol of colonial dynamics 13, 176–92
as symbol of socioeconomic tensions 13, 195–209
Montes, Felipe 14, 196
mule 8, 71, 73–6, 157, 218, 222
Natural historia de las Indias (Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés) 5, 47n.17
Natural History (Pliny) 7, 36–49
niñas del naranjel, Las (Cabezón Cámara) 158
Nora, Pierre 11, 145
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 11, 123, 131–2
Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (Guaman Poma de Ayala) 6, 19–33
Ocampo, Victoria 157
Olmos, Andrés de 63–4
“‘Onçanta,’ um totem” (Medeiros) 118–19
Operación Bolívar (Clément) 11, 123–37
oral tradition 27, 31–2, 117
Otherness
access to 90
in society 129, 177, 196
ontology of 177–8
see also anthropodenial, marginalization
Our Share of the Night (Enriquez) 176–92
Ovid 4
owl 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 65
Patagonian Indigenous populations see Patagonian under Indigenous beliefs
pegasus 37
Perra brava (Alarcón) 14, 196, 200–3
pet (animal) 138, 151
Physiologus 23, 56
Pliny, the Elder 7, 36–49, 73, 76, 79
Poemas solares: Solar Poems (Aridjis) 113–16
printing press 24
Quetzalcoatl 62, 96–7
Quijano, Aníbal 177, 183n.5
Quiroga, Horacio 105
Rank, Otto 96–7
religious syncretism 52, 122–3, 131
Rojas González, Francisco 125–6
Romani community 71n.1, 72–5, 74n.2
Royle, Nicholas 86, 92, 97
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos 11, 138–9
Sahagún, Bernardino de 57, 59, 64, 85, 129, 130
Florentine Codex (Sahagún) 24, 58, 60–2, 64–5, 102
Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España (Sahagún) 24, 125
serpent 21, 25–6, 31, 62, 96, 106
Seville, Isidore of 23, 61
sickness see illness
siren 31
slavery 6, 55, 133, 190
snake 21–2, 40, 57
Spain
Arab-Muslim invasion 4
civil war 138, 139, 149
Golden Age 3
Inquisition 4, 28, 29, 127
monarchy 3, 4, 19, 21, 25
religious turmoil 70–1
“Tabla de las efigies de gentes monstruosas, animales, pescados, aves e insectos” (Huerta) 36–49
Taki Onqoy 24–5
Thevet, André de 43–4, 47n.17
tiger 13, 22, 26, 31, 105–9
Tlatelolco massacre 130
Torrano, Andrea 12, 205
Tortorici, Zeb 2, 54, 56
Tukelal Solitud (Ak’abal) 109
uncanny, the 10, 86–98, 144, 198
Uncanny, The (Freud) 87–9, 91–4, 96–8
unicorn 24, 30, 31, 37
United States
interventionist policy 179n.2
relationship to Mexico 123, 135
Urdapilleta, Marco 42
utopia 25
Valladolid Debate 6
Vidler, Anthony 87, 89–90
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo 100, 103–4, 114, 172
Von Humboldt, Alexander 5, 86
werewolf 14, 76, 195–209
witch 60, 61–5, 78, 102, 122
see also Nahual
witchcraft 51, 63–5, 76, 79, 88
wolf 14, 46, 78–9
woodcut 7, 49, 211, 213, 221, 223
Xochimilco, Lake 86, 95
Xólotl 85, 96–7
Zilcosky, John 87
zoological garden 90, 91, 115
zoology 86
zoomorphic divinities 62
zoomorphism
of women 14, 201–2, 210–24,
of men 14, 214, 216–17, 223
of Spanish colonials 9, 25–6
zoopoetics 72, 151