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Creatures of Fashion
John Soluri
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization.
Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region’s transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europe’s houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the “end of the world.”
From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluri’s narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond.
Kundenbewertungen
international fur seal hunting and conservation, Indigenous displacements in late-nineteenth-century Argentina and Chile, socio-environmental conflicts in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Selk’nam struggle against sheep ranchers in Tierra del Fuego, consumption of fur seals skins in Europe and the United States, violence of settler colonialism in Chile and Argentina, Aónikenk and fur traders in Patagonia, animals in Latin American history, fashion, capitalism, and environmental change, Yámana interactions with fur seal hunters, introduction of sheep in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, animal reproduction and capitalism, Environmental history of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego