La Relación entre Humanos y Animales en los Estudios  Históricos del Caribe Insular

Reinaldo Funes Monzote

doi:10.32991/2237-2717.2024v14i3.p49-65

Authors

Reinaldo Funes Monzote Universidad de La Habana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2152-3535

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32991/2237-2717.2024v14i3.p49-65

Keywords:

Insular Caribbean, Antilles, plantations, livestock, terrestrial animals, marine animals

Abstract

The history of animals or the relationship with animals in the insular Caribbean region has few works explicitly part of this historiographic turn within Environmental History and other currents influenced by the ecological paradigm. This article explores the background of these studies and addresses some of the lines of historical research where animals appear more frequently in the Caribbean archipelago. First, reference will be made to their role as part of the plantation complex, from the slavery plantations era to the modern agro-industrial plantation; second, to its evolution as part of the livestock activity itself; third, to “wild” or feral terrestrial animals; and, fourth, marine animals. In several cases, the works mentioned above can be transversal to those lines of inquiry into the links between humans and other animals. The text privileges studies from a material and zoological perspective over those around representation or with a more culturalist approach.

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