Description
Applies an ethnographic perspective to the study of primates
Primate Ethnographies, 1/e, is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions, revealing the wide spectrum of primate science (primatology). Essays cover such primates as lemurs, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes. Readers experience the excitement of discovery and the challenges of primate field research. Primate Ethnographies can be used as a textbook or a companion reader.
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Table of Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Primate Ethnographies: The Biological and Cultural Dimensions of Field Primatology
By Karen B. Strier
PART II: STARTING OUT
2. There and Back Again: A Primatologist’s Tale
By Jim Moore
3. Moonlit Walks: A Serendipitous Journey from Baboons and Chimpanzees to Nocturnal Primates
By Leanne T. Nash
4. The Lure of Lemurs to an Anthropologist
By Robert W. Sussman
5. On the Ground Looking Up
By Kenneth Glander
6. Learning to Become a Monkey
By Michael A. Huffman
PART III: SOCIAL COMPLEXITIES
7. The Accidental Primatologist: My Encounters with Pygmy Marmosets and Cotton-top Tamarins
By Charles T. Snowdon
8. Of Monkeys, Moonlight, and Monogamy in the Argentinean Chaco
By Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
9. Stress in the Wilds
By Jacinta C. Beehner and Thore J. Bergman
10. Baboon Mechanics
By S. Peter Henzi and Louise Barrett
11. The Graceful Asian Ape
By Ulrich H. Reichard
PART IV: COMPARATIVE LENSES
12. Studying Lemurs on Three Continents
By Peter M. Kappeler
13. A Tale of Two Monkeys
By Stephen F. Ferrari
14. There’s a Monkey in my Kitchen (and I Like It): Fieldwork with Macaques in Bali and Beyond
By Agustín Fuentes
15. Gorillas Across Time and Space
By Martha M. Robbins
16. Chimpanzee Reunion
By Craig Stanford
PART V: CHANGES WITH TIME
17. Questions My Mother Asked Me: An Inside View of a Thirty-Year Primate Project in a Costa Rican National Park
By Linda Marie Fedigan
18. Male Bands in the Amazonian Rainforest
By Anthony Di Fiore
19. Blue Monkeys and Bridges: Transformations in Habituation, Habitat and People
By Marina Cords
20. The Evolution of a Conservation Biologist
By Colin A. Chapman
21. Studying Apes in a Human Landscape
By Jill D. Pruetz
APPENDIX: Tables of Cross-Referenced Regions, Species, and Key Topics and Concepts
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