Book contents
- Feral Empire
- Feral Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Equine Imprint in Iberian History, Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries
- 2 A Politics of Horses
- 3 The Paradox of Abundance and Illusion of Control
- 4 Indigenous Equestrianism
- 5 Ferality and Breed in “New World” Horses
- 6 Defining Casta and Raza
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
5 - Ferality and Breed in “New World” Horses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 May 2024
- Feral Empire
- Feral Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Equine Imprint in Iberian History, Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries
- 2 A Politics of Horses
- 3 The Paradox of Abundance and Illusion of Control
- 4 Indigenous Equestrianism
- 5 Ferality and Breed in “New World” Horses
- 6 Defining Casta and Raza
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Colonial horse breeding regulations attempted to manage and classify equine difference, but conceded to the numerous challenges in establishing desired physical traits. Likewise, emerging feral horse herds challenged narratives of Spanish domination over colonial environments. Importantly, these feral horses were a direct product of Spanish husbandry methods that used both controlled and uncontrolled breeding. In this sense, both the free-ranging horses and selectively bred colonial horses illustrated the limits of domestication in their diverging from human efforts to intervene and control them.
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- Feral EmpireHorse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World, pp. 143 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024