Chimpanzee culture wars : rethinking human nature alongside Japanese, European, and American cultural primatologists /

"Do apes share with humans the capacity to acquire qualities not inherent in their nature? Debates within the field of primatology over the last century keep coming back to this fundamental question, which compels us to reexamine our understanding of culture and of the nature-culture divide. Th...

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Autor principal: Langlitz, Nicolas, 1975- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press [2020]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvz0h8ss
Taula de continguts:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Birth of Cultural Primatology from the Spirit of Japanese Uniqueness
  • 2. Multiculturalism beyond the Human
  • 3. Chimpanzee Ethnography
  • 4. Controlling for Pongoland
  • 5. Japanese Syntheses
  • 6. Field Experiments with a Totem Animal
  • 7. Salvage Primatology
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index