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This book examines how the perceived edibility of animals evolved during the colonization of the Americas. Early European colonizers ate a variety of animals in the Americas, motivated by factors like curiosity, starvation, and diplomacy. As settlements increased and became more sustainable, constructs of edibility shifted and the colonial food system evolved accordingly. By exploring the changes in animal edibility identifiable in early modern Spanish, French, and English sources in the regions of Mesoamerica, Greater Amazonia, and the east coast of North America, this book shows that animals, foodways, and settler colonialism are inextricably linked and that the colonization of the Americas was not only the beginning of new empires, but also of a long-lasting colonial food culture that drives both food systems and human-animal relationships to the present day.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Best Kinds of Meat That I Have Eaten in America
Chapter 1: Tastes Like Chicken: Fashioning an Appetite for the Americas
Chapter 2: To Satisfy Cruel Hunger: Edibility and Starvation in the Animal Typology
Chapter 3: Revenge Eating: Animal Executions and Performative Eating
Chapter 4: For It Is Not Edible: The New Colonial Food System as a Form of Colonization
Chapter 5: Consuming Empire: Commodifying the Animal and the Americas in the Colonization Narrative
Conclusion: "Dirty Animals"
Index
