Camelid colonialism
A stuffed llama can tell a powerful story about imperial duplicity. Review: Llamas beyond the Andes, Marcia Stephenson, by Gavin O'Toole
Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World, Marcia Stephenson, 2023, University of Texas Press
A sad female llama stuffed in 1851 and now stored in the vaults of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris may not at first sight be the most obvious artefact of European imperialism.
But the fascinating story of this mus…