ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|10 pages
Introduction
part II|58 pages
Starting Out
chapter 3|9 pages
Moonlit Walks
A Serendipitous Journey from Baboons and Chimpanzees to Nocturnal Primates
part III|62 pages
Social Complexities
chapter 7|11 pages
The Accidental Primatologist
My Encounters with Pygmy Marmosets and Cotton-Top Tamarins
part IV|54 pages
Comparative Lenses
chapter 14|12 pages
There's a Monkey in My Kitchen (and I Like It)
Fieldwork with Macaques in Bali and Beyond
part V|53 pages
Changes with Time
chapter 17|10 pages
Questions My Mother Asked Me
An Inside View of a Thirty-Year Primate Project in a Costa Rican National Park
