Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia

by John Soluri

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469675714
• ISBN13: 9781469675718
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"