ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 focuses on research experiences on the Indonesian island of Java. Java’s distinctiveness emerges from its unique combination of biotic richness, physical geography and complex human history, and therefore typifies primatology’s new “sites of relevance”. Simultaneous attention to both socioecological data and ethnographic insights reveals the complexity of primate life in Java. Understanding these interwoven layers, and working productively towards sustainable outcomes for both human and nonhuman primates, is the promise of an informed, anthropological primatology. This chapter describes how the dual objectives of obtaining socioecological data and contributing to conservation measures are integrated, mutually reinforcing and bound by theoretical ties that attend to the entanglement of human and other primates’ lives in the anthropocene.
