Book Review: The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 by Marcy Norton

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Abstract

When Europeans landed on the shores of Hispaniola, Marcy Norton argues, they encountered belief systems that challenged much that they held to be true. The people they encountered did not live with animals in the same way that these men from Christian culture did: crucially, the indigenous populations did not have a category of ‘livestock’; rather, they held that animals that were fed by humans were not for eating by humans; that raising animals for consumption was anathema to ideas about hospitality and familiarity.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)417-419
Number of pages3
JournalInternational Journal of Maritime History
Volume37
Issue number2
Early online date28 Mar 2025
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2025

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

  • animal history
  • colonisation
  • indigenous cultures

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